Health Care

Despite Medicaid expansion, data show little improvement in oral health disparities in recent years.

Understanding poverty is central to serving complex patients, says Dr. Jeffrey Brenner, founder of the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers.

At a time when drug overdose deaths are surging, life-saving treatment is too little and too far for many Coloradans.

The argument for acts of love and justice as the key to good health.

Colorado’s uninsured rate among kids is down to 2.5 percent. How close can it get to zero?

New research from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care shows huge differences in costs of the same common medical procedures, depending on where they take place and who is being billed.

Millions of dollars’ worth of prescription drugs are thrown out every year in Colorado. Here’s how these medications can be saved and responsibly repurposed.

Among policy wonks, the idea that medical care is just a small part of good health has gained wide acceptance. What isn’t clear is what to do about it.

A Colorado initiative to increase access among teenagers and poor women to the most effective forms of reversible birth control has had a disproportionate effect on some of the girls and women at highest risk for unplanned births, and families who are most vulnerable to negative health impacts.

By Ned Calonge, MD, MPH Why a ruling for the plaintiffs in King vs. Burwell would have a significant effect on the health of Americans, and also our economy.