Native Americans have shorter life spans, and it's not just due to lack of health care

HISLE, S.D. — Katherine Goodlow is only 20, but she has experienced enough to know that people aroun...

16,000 people with disabilities are in state-operated institutions. This is how experts say health care should change.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary "No Place Like Home" in the video player above. More than 16,000 p...

Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille discharged from hospital after treatment for undisclosed condition

Haiti's newly selected Prime Minister Garry Conille was discharged from a hospital Sunday after spen...

How aging veterans are treated like family at medical foster homes

Shantel Cross and her two kids set three places for dinner for the veterans who live at their home i...

Americans spend more on health care than any other nation. Yet almost half can't afford care.

Americans spend more money on health care on a per capita basis than people in any other developed n...

Canadians say they're worried a U.S. company may be emitting toxic gas into their community

Toronto — Residents of a city just outside Toronto tell CBS News they had no idea an American compan...

At Trump's GOP Convention, there's little to be heard on health care

No talk of Obamacare. No abortion. At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee this week, whe...

Kamala Harris, once Biden's voice on abortion, expected to take an outspoken approach to health

Throughout Joe Biden's presidency, he leaned on the outspoken former prosecutor and senator he selec...

Texas Gov. Abbott instructs hospitals to collect data on patients' immigration status

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patien...

Heat-related deaths accelerated in the last 7 years, Journal of American Medical Association study finds

Americans are more at risk from the deadly effects of heat than ever before, a new study found. Rese...

Harris courts Latinos with health care-focused ads slamming Trump

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign is ramping up its efforts to win over Latino voters across ba...

What is Harris' "Medicare at Home" plan and how would it work?

Vice President Kamala Harris is proposing an expansion of Medicare to cover the costs of an in-home ...

Amid false claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, officials say these are the real health challenges

When Ohio senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance claimed Haitian immigrants had...