Some health experts believe the controversial claims made by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be due to an obsolete medical theory. Known as miasma theory, this ...

Health care jobs have been on the rise for three main reasons. First, more people have been getting access to care. The uninsured rate has fallen to 8 percent in 2023 from 14 percent in 2000.

Dueling theories. Germ theory is, of course, the 19th-century proven idea that microscopic germs—pathogenic viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi—cause disease.

Autoimmune disease affects over 50 million Americans and represents a $100 billion-plus healthcare burden—yet few digital health startups have cracked the code on scalable, evidence-based care ...