Health & Human Services

The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has announced a $50 million gift from Jim and Marilyn Simons to establish the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology.

Many Americans wait six days or more to see a doctor when they are sick and need care, ranking the United States toward the bottom in a Commonwealth Fund study of wait times for treatment in 11 countries.

Now that an estimated 20.1 million Americans have insurance because of the Affordable Care Act—and as that number grows—the wholesale repeal of the law is less likely, Commonwealth Fund President David Blumental, M.D., and Sara R. Collins, Ph.D.,...

Morgan Stanley named Newark the third location for its Healthy Cities initiative, a program connecting several local nonprofits, schools and hospitals to help support healthy child development.