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Coordinating care for high-risk patients was expected to save money and improve quality of care. A Medicare experiment didn't pan out.

Experiment In Coordinated Care For Medicare Failed To Show Savings

The test aimed to help high-risk Medicare patients navigate the health care maze. But after three years, expected improvements in quality and savings failed to materialize.

Hospitals that muff patient safety avoided F's for now, but a new independent grading system will hand those out before long.

Independent Grades For Hospitals Show Quality Could Be Better

Move over restaurants. Now hospitals are getting letter grades based on their patient safety performance from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that's looking to improve the quality and safety of health care.

President Biden and first lady Jill Biden walk up the stairs as they arrive at the North Portico of the White House on Wednesday.

6 Numbers That Show President Biden's Greatest Challenges

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

Nirma, 16, plays with her friends. She is married but still lives with her parents and talks to her husband on the phone sometimes. She is nervous about the duties she'll have to take on when she does move in with her husband. At the moment, she hopes to graduate high school and eventually become a doctor.

Prize-Winning Photos Show A Different Side Of Instagram

Getty has given grants to photographers who focused on child brides in India, family members who have been out of touch and youth who have been incarcerated.

With new infections rising around the country due to the delta variant, reports of breakthrough cases among the fully vaccinated can be worrisome.

What The Latest Science Shows About Breakthrough Cases

With news about vaccinated people getting coronavirus infections, should you be worried? How common are breakthrough infections? Here's what scientists know and what they're trying to learn.