The Great Recession of 2008 took a toll on older Americans.

The John C. Lincoln Health Network and Scottsdale Healthcare have announced plans to work together . Officials stress the new arrangement is not a merger, and that each system will still be legally separate.

Efforts to reach a budget agreement at the state capitol are being complicated by Governor Jan Brewer's proposal to expand Medicaid, a plan one lawmaker says is paralyzing the process.

Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed a bill that would have required certain health care providers to have lists of what some of their services cost.

For many uninsured families in Phoenix, getting sick raises a question with few good answers. Go to the doctor, and they’ll likely face bills they can’t pay. Wait it out, and they might end up in the emergency room. For some, legal status keeps them from seeking help at all. Now, one school district may have found a cure, using a different type of medicine.

Some Arizonans who get a lung disease common in the Southwest are not being treated properly by their doctors. But, the University of Arizona and State Department of Health Services have joined efforts to train physicians who may not know a lot about Valley Fever. 

A federal judge has overturned a 2012 Arizona anti-abortion law targeting Planned Parenthood.

The Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center is the latest oncology hospital in the Valley to announce it’s expanding.

Less than a month after Phoenix approved a plan to tax its hospitals, another Arizona city is looking to do the same thing.

Phoenix hospitals will pay a new tax, under an ordinance approved Tuesday by the Phoenix City Council in a 6-3 vote. Supporters say it will bring in $200 million in federal money to help hospitals care for people without insurance.