Health Policy

This is the fourth year for the popular Unmentionables panel at Health 2.0, covering topics that aren't discussed in health care.

Susannah Fox will be the kick-off speaker for a discussion of how data is transforming health and health care.

Susannah Fox will conduct a 90-minute Master Class on participatory research: models, methods, opportunities, and challenges.

This week, House Speaker John Boehner agreed to tie funding of the government to defunding Obamacare, as conservative members of his caucus have demanded. This proposal may be unlikely to survive the Democratic-controlled Senate, not to mention the president’s veto pen, but recent Pew Research Center surveys show that it is clearly in step with […]

Almost six-in-ten uninsured Americans live in states that haven't set up their own health-insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act.

Survey Report As a key step in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act approaches, public views of the 2010 health care law are as negative as ever, and many are unaware of the elements of the law that will be going into place. While opposition to the law runs deep, critics are divided over whether […]

Susannah Fox spoke at "A Healthy America" at the Institute of Medicine.

Blacks and Hispanics (46% each) are somewhat more inclined than whites (34%) to say they would want treatments to dramatically extend life.

If new medical treatments could slow the aging process and allow people to live decades longer, would you want to? Most Americans say no, but roughly two-thirds think that most other people would say yes.