HIPAA regulations strictly control access to a deceased spouse’s medical records, including those from Medicare. You can only access these records if you legally represent their estate or have ...

A study of 83 leading hospitals finds barriers to exercising your legal right. This is a Kaiser Health news story. Medical records can be hard for patients to get, even in this digital information age ...

Sivan Benjamin was grateful to welcome a healthy baby boy in 2023, but not everything felt right. While a planned C-section for the breech infant was necessary, the delivery didn’t meet all her ...

TikTok user The Hypermobile CPT (@thehypermobilecpt) is a personal trainer and nutritionist who details her experience living with a number of chronic illnesses, including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, ...

Fulton County, Georgia, is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of jail-attributable deaths—deaths to which the difficult conditions of incarceration were a contributor—in its carceral facilities.

When Jennifer Hughes’ son was in a mountain biking accident last year, she was prepared to go into full “mama bear” mode, overseeing his medical care and insurance details. But the Chicago-area mom ...