Obamacare Shopping Is Trickier Than Ever. Here's A Cheat Sheet

Healthcare can be complicated

Health care is complicated. Shopping for an individual health plan just got even more so, with President Donald Trump's decision last month to block $7 billion in Affordable Care Act subsidies.

Obesity And Depression Are Entwined, Yet Scientists Don't Know Why

Scientists aren't sure why obesity and depression are correlated

About 15 years ago, Dr. Sue McElroy, a psychiatrist in Mason, Ohio, started noticing a pattern. People came to see her because they were depressed, but they frequently had a more visible ailment as well: They were heavy.

Official Involved in Bush-Era Purge of Gay Employees Now in Trump Administration

Department of Agriculture official has a LGBT-unfriendly past

A government investigation found that Jim Renne was a key player in a scandal in which staff were targeted on the basis of sexual orientation.

It was one of the uglier scandals of the Bush administration: Top officials at an agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers launched a campaign against their own employees based on suspected sexual orientation, according to an inspector general report.

Offshore Human Testing Of Herpes Vaccine Stokes Debate Over U.S. Safety Rules

Agustín Fernández III, a former Hollywood filmmaker, co-founded Rational Vaccines, which tested a controversial herpes vaccine offshore. The vaccine is not approved in the U.S., but Fernández has vowed to continue trials and manufacturing the vaccine offshore.

WASHINGTON — Defying U.S. safety protections for human trials, an American university and a group of wealthy libertarians, including a prominent Donald Trump supporter, are backing the offshore testing of an experimental herpes vaccine.

Often Missing In The Health Care Debate: Women's Voices

Women's voices in the ACA debate.

Women, in particular, have a lot at stake in the fight over the future of health care.