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....

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

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...

A mother was set to donate her kidney to her son – until the coronavirus derailed his surgery. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

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

A 7-year-old boy’s transplant surgery is delayed as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, and his family is hoping he can stay healthy long enough to make it until the rescheduled transplant. In September, Davidson Alagno was diagnosed with a rare kidney disease, and doctors told his family he would need a transplant to survive. About a month later...

When someone brought thousands of N95 masks to a family-owned company in Beltsville to be recycled, Gary Shipp decided to hang on to them — despite his son telling him to throw them out. Now, their company is donating the 36,000 masks to health care workers in need amid the coronavirus pandemic. News4’s Cory Smith reports.

Skylar Johnson’s designs were featured on the Kelly Clarkson show. Now, the 11-year-old is making face masks to help health care workers in the fight against the coronavirus. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

MedStar Washington Hospital Center has been preparing for an outbreak of disease for years. Doreen Gentzler reports on how this hospital is braced to deal with a surge of patients amid the coronavirus crisis.

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.