WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Community health centers can help fill gaps in the U.S. healthcare system for relatively little money, researchers said on Tuesday. Their report, published in the journal Health Affairs, was released just as President Barack Obama proposed increased federal funding to the centers, which are set up to treat people without health insurance, people who live far from ...

Brian Benz hobbled around for a week after a basketball game left him with a sprained ankle when he lived in Wisconsin. Though the athletic 34-year-old called his doctor's office repeatedly, he couldn't get an appointment. So he did what many desperate patients do: He went ...

President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday the government is spending almost $600 million for community health centers and for a push to transfer medical records to electronic formats. The White House painted the spending — part of the $787 billion stimulus bill the president championed during his first days in ...