Amazon has had no problem getting affluent households to buy from its online store. But people with low incomes have been less loyal to the retailer.

Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), on Wednesday criticized what he called a “rigged” system that keeps some generic drugs off the market and leaves patients paying high costs.

A White House advisory panel on Tuesday called for urgent action to address the rising cost of cancer drugs.

In the not-too-distant future, your health insurance, your prescription drugs and some of your treatment may come from the same company.

Antonio Villaraigosa on Monday challenged his top rival in the governor’s race, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, to a one-on-one debate over the viability of a state-sponsored single-payer healthcare system in California.

Without the threat of a tax penalty, one in five Californians would not have signed up for health insurance this year, Harvard University researchers discovered as a part of a survey released Thursday.