Health

This is the beginning of a series of articles written to educate our readers about the Affordable Care Act, the Healthcare Insurance Marketplace and expanded healthcare options for uninsured Michiganders. The Chronicle’s “Got You Covered” Awareness Campaign Aims to Educate the Community About the New Health Insurance MarketplaceToday, uninsured...

The Affordable Care Act includes provisions intended to improve access to health insurance coverage and ensure that such coverage provides essential health benefits for adolescents and young adults. Several of these provisions are already in effect for most plans, including requirements to cover preventive services without cost-sharing, a...

Gov. Rick Snyder will sign legislation that would make more low-income adults eligible for health insurance through the federal health care law.The state House approved the much-debated Medicaid expansion bill on a bipartisan 75-32 vote the day after Labor Day.Live coverage of the ceremony can be seen on the Michigan.gov website at 10 a.m. Visit ww...

(CNN) -- Anthony Stokes, 15, received a heart transplant Tuesday night at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, according to a family spokesman. Anthony...

Anthony Stokes, a 15-year-old boy, has  less than six months to live according to doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where the teenager has...

(AP) — A restaurant says it has switched vendors after a customer found a cluster of maggots on his sandwich at Atlanta's airport....

Health officials say they have the first evidence of a national decline in childhood obesity. A government report released Tuesday found at least...

Could ObamaCare be part of bailing out Detroit? It's possible, as city officials look for ways to cut on retiree health care cost as they begin bankruptcy hearings.The New York Times reported Monday that the city is proposing a plan aimed at reducing its $5.7 billion in outstanding retiree health costs.City leaders want to take those retirees too...

Page 1 of 2As the CEOs of three major health systems in Michigan, we support Governor Snyder's Healthy Michigan Plan that strives to improve and strengthen our state's Medicaid program and offer health insurance to low-income working adults.Failing to accept federal support to provide health insurance to an estimated 450,000 working Michigan...

The Institute for Population Health and health care Reform Vernice D. Anthony: I am very excited about the future of health care for our community. All we have been hearing about in the past is the poor statistics on our health status, rising health care cost, health disparities. But there is good news on the horizon...