Plenty of health care advocates agree that doctors should ask patients if they are being abused at home; however, a new study from the BMJ shows such screening might have little effect on reducing domestic violence.

Asthma can be a deadly condition but there is a worrying amount of complacency from both doctors and sufferers resulting in more deaths from asthma attacks that could have been prevented.

This year, for the first time ever, the World Health Organization has released a report outlining standards of hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and treatment

A new hepatitis C treatment has been praised for its effectiveness and criticized for its very high price.

With the highly contested Supreme Court case last month, U.S. workplaces can now claim a religious exemption to avoid paying for contraceptive health insurance.

According to research from the Department of Health and Human Services, nursing care must do more to stop accidental harm to patients, much of which is preventable.

Austerity measures in Greece have caused much damage to the nation’s health system, according to a recent study in The Lancet.

U.S. News reports that jobs in health care will be among some of the most desirable employment in the coming year.

In December, the World Health Organization brought attention to the rights of mental health patients on Human Rights Day, 2013.

UK hospitals are to address poor weekend care for patients by changing consultants working contracts.