New research led by the University of Leicester and published this week in the British Journal of Psychiatry reveals that people with mental health problems are receiving inferior care for their medical needs.

A large group of California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality, according to a RAND Corporation study issued today.

Researchers from Boston Medical Center (BMC) have found that education on addiction is inadequate during medical training, resulting in suboptimal medical care for those at risk.

A new report says the lives of millions of young children could be saved each year if basic medical care and medicine are made available to the poor. Douglas Bakshian has more from Manila.

The largest American retailer and pharmacy chain on the East Coast, Rite Aid, is going to open walk-in clinics inside four RiteAid stores in Washington and Baltimore.

Medical spending on the chronically ill elderly in New York, New Jersey and California exceeds the U.S. average by more than 20 percent, and the patients in those states don't live any longer ob better, a study found.

The Swedish Luthern Church and a number of doctors here are highly critical of the Swedish medical policies denying equal care to immigrants, refugees and the unemployed.

Registered nurses have canceled a planned three-day strike at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez after gaining significant results at the bargaining table.

The Chinese government has issued a circular on Monday intended to tighten control of costs for medical services and drugs.

In a commentary and two editorials published in the September 2007 issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, three anesthesiologists and a medical ethicist discussed whether doctors should participate in capital punishment executions.

In the majority of Central Asia's prisons and colonies, inmate access to even basic medical care is severely limited. Rights activists and former convicts say sick prisoners often get only one-half or even one-quarter of a pain-relief tablet, regardless of what illness they have.

Ministers from across the Asia-Pacific region - where relative wealth has not translated into health investments - today heard calls at a United Nations meeting in Kazakhstan for more government spending on medical care in order to combat poverty.