A quest that started about a year ago reached its exhilarating conclusion last Friday when about 120 participating fourth-year medical students learned which programs accepted them for training in a medical specialty. One student in particular who took the stage with her boyfriend got at least one offer she wasn’t expecting.

The drug crisis is affecting communities all across the U.S. even here locally.

WASHINGTON (SBG) —Elizabeth Warren will make two stops during the day in Mississippi. The first will be a walking tour with state Senator Willie Simmons in Cleveland, MS.

MedPAC is expected to ask Congress for a 2.8% increase in acute-care hospital payments in its latest report to Congress.

Flu activity fell slightly in the week ending March 9, but still remains high, according to the CDC’s most recent FluView report.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association used 2018 CMS data from June to illustrate the number of ASCs in each state.

About 30% of ED visits among patients with common chronic conditions are potentially unnecessary, leading to $8.3 billion in additional healthcare costs.

The administration will focus on more than 50 “hot spots” in the U.S. that annually account for half of new H.I.V. infections. A clinic in the Deep South sees the challenges every day.

Seventeen health insurance, employer and consumer organizations today proposed recommendations for federal action to protect patients from surprise medical bills.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Friday released its March report to Congress.

In a study of Blue Cross and Blue Shield enrollees reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, initial opioid prescriptions declined 54 percent between July 2012 and December 2017.