If you find yourself out of a job due the coronavirus crisis, money may be tight, but it’s especially important now to try to make sure you have health insurance. There are different rules that apply when it comes to maintaining health coverage, depending on whether you’re furloughed — let go temporarily — or you’re terminated through a layoff....

Providing insightful scientific knowledge for weeks, immunologist Anthony Fauci has been the doctor many have trusted with reliable, proven information about COVID-19. “Dr. Fauci has been a good face for this horrible thing,” said Kathy Cloud of Avon. Now, that face is on something delicious. Donuts. West Hartford’s Donut Crazy is selling dozens and dozens of donuts with the...

A local donut shop is selling specially designed Dr. Fauci donuts all to benefit a good cause

Richard Branson’s California-based rocket company Virgin Orbit partnered with medical researchers and developed a ventilator device that the company plans to mass produce and send to hospitals around the United States to fight coronavirus. ″[It is] a very, very simple and robust design that we can get out to the people who are in the most need, and the hospitals that...

Health care workers are dreading the prospect of having to decide who to treat first as U.S. hospitals brace for a surge in coronavirus patients who need ventilators and other resources that could soon be in critically short supply

Doctors working to treat the coronavirus are looking at a variety of options, including some medications that are already on the market for other purposes. One such drug that’s been floated as having potential fighting power against COVID-19 is hydroxychloroquine, which was originally used for malaria and is now commonly used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and lupus....

The number of coronavirus cases in New Haven continues to rise,  and city officials are doing their best to prepare for the worst. New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker said the city’s total coronavirus cases continue to rise, and he believes some of the major strain health care systems are experiencing in harder hit places could happen in New Haven...

The city is looking for anyone with experience in health care to join the Medical Reserve Corps and help the city prepare for a surge in coronavirus cases.

With capacity stretched thin, U.S. hospitals are rushing to find beds for a coming flood of patients, opening older closed hospitals, turning single rooms into doubles and re-purposing other medical buildings. At the same time, medical professionals in New York City are warning of the risks they are facing on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic in the United...

People are banding together to sew face masks for hospitals running desperately short of personal protective equipment as the coronavirus pandemic intensifies

One of the nation’s biggest health insures is waiving patient payments for hospital stays tied to the coronavirus

Supreme Court will decide fate of Obama-era health care law, probably not until after 2020 election

Nearly one third of American voters fear they won’t be able to pay for health care in the coming year, according to an NBC News/Commonwealth Fund survey released Thursday.

The Trump administration on Friday threatened California with a potential loss of federal health care funds over the state’s requirement that insurance plans cover abortions.

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson is trying to get his campaign back to the issue of Brexit after being accused of a lack of empathy for looking away from an image of child sleeping on a hospital room floor while awaiting treatment. The story of 4-year-old Jack has overshadowed campaigning for Thursday’s general election as Johnson and his Conservatives pushed...

The next time you get sick, your care may involve a form of the technology people use to navigate road trips or pick the right vacuum cleaner online. Artificial intelligence is spreading into health care, often as software or a computer program capable of learning from large amounts of data and making predictions to guide care or help patients. It...

Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced Friday that it is voluntarily recalling heartburn drug Zantac amid ongoing investigations into a carcinogen found in the medication in September. Many pharmacies in the U.S. had already pulled Zantac and its generic equivalents from their shelves, and at least two makers of the drug’s generic version had already halted production.

Watch comedian Jon Stewart’s full statement at a congressional hearing on the 9/11 victims fund Tuesday, June 11.

Critical care doctor charged with murder in the deaths of 25 hospital patients who authorities say were deliberately given overdoses of painkillers.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend about $98 million a year to cover low-income immigrants between the ages of 19 and 25 who are living in the country illegally.