Before insurance plans will approve doctor-recommended medication, they often require patients to try cheaper alternatives in what is known as step therapy. NBC News’s Maggie Vespa reports on a ...

NJTO, serving the Newark, Camden, and Trenton areas, is one of 55 organ procurement organizations in the United States charged with coordinating the retrieval of donor organs for the more than 103,000 ...

* A previous version of this story was inaccurately accompanied by an image of a Toadpit Medical Services ambulance. We would like to make it clear that Toadpit, which provides medical support at ...

The NHS in Nottinghamshire has issued a plea to patients and the public after missed GP appointments cost the health service more than £9.25m in the past year. NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire ICB ...

Patients at Hull Royal Infirmary are set to benefit from a revolutionary form of keyhole surgery. According to the NHS Humber Health Partnership, patients with spinal disorders and degenerative spine ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: How do I get primary care doctors to understand that I do not do any health screenings and that their badgering only infuriates me more. My feeling is that if you’re not going to treat ...

WILLIAMSBURG COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) — Some patients say they’re missing medical appointments because of drivers showing up late or not at all through the non-emergency transportation service Modivcare.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I’m a healthy 50-year-old woman. I asked my doctor to test me for Lipoprotein(a) after reading about it. My level was high, at 41 mg/dL. My doctor told me that it didn’t need to be ...

A senior police officer has described the devastation felt by emergency service workers after they tried but failed to get an ambulance patient to safety before he was killed. An 18-year-old left the ...