Morning health reads - Mon, Dec 10 2018

This story was co-published with The New York Times. One is dean of Yale's medical school. Another is the director of a cancer center in Texas. A third is the next president of the most prominent society of cancer doctors. These leading medical…

For the birth of their first child, social worker Diane Vidalakis and her husband chose one of Pasadena's most prominent obstetricians, Dr. Patrick Sutton, vice chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Huntington Memorial Hospital. Labor initially…

The “sandbox,” according to investigators, was the market for generic prescription drugs, where everyone was expected to play nice. “Fair share” described dividing up the sales pie to ensure that each company reaped…

Skip intro Doctors described him as “happy and playful” and told his foster mother he would be healthy by the time he went to kindergarten. That was before a giant health care company made a decision that saved it as much as $500 a…

Managed care spread to almost 40 states in large part because lawmakers want a predictable way to budget for the rising cost of health care for poor, sick and disabled residents. Rather than paying doctors' bills directly, as it used to do, Texas…

At least four times this year, government regulators were alerted to serious problems in the heart surgery program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital. In April, the hospital's CEO publicly acknowledged that the program had…

This article was produced in collaboration with the Houston Chronicle. During the summer of 2017, Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center posted a banner on its website, celebrating its liver and lung transplant programs as “#1 in Texas.”…