For those of us who grew up in New York City in the 1970s and the 1980s, that all too familiar sight of people sleeping on cardboard boxes or in the subway trains has returned.

Weeks before Tuesday’s first shopping day for health insurance, Gateway Community Health Center trained and certified four counselors to help people sort through health insurance options and decide which to buy.

By Noam Levey, Los Angeles Times

Low-income patients with diabetes are getting better access to medical care in states that have expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act, suggests a new study that provides one of the first indications of the sweeping law's health effects. Residents of other states are at risk of being left behind.

Say "summer" and most people think "vacation." The reality is that most adults work year-round, and some seasonal workers may even be busier in the summer than during other seasons. Children of working parents may continue to have schedules just as structured as school—even if it's called "camp"—to accommodate their parents' long hours away from home. Teenagers may have jobs of their own. Still, the traditional mythos persists: summertime is vacationtime.

SAN ANTONIO -- A new study from the University of Texas Health Science Center shows Hipanics in South Texas aren't living as healthy a lifestyle. It shows almost 38 percent of them are obese.