BENTONVILLE -- About a dozen people crammed into a room on Northwest Arkansas Community College's Adult Education Campus in Rogers on Wednesday morning. The word "Obamacare" was recognizable as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By Ronnie Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patient navigators may be able to help steer women with breast cancer through what can ...

When Lynda Lau Liebrecht was first diagnosed with breast cancer, everything she read was telling her about the importance of urgency. She wanted to know more about her diagnosis and what the treatment ...

Michele Kranz, discussed how oncology nurse navigators like herself support patients with cancer through education, advocacy and care coordination. Patients with cancer often face a complex care ...

As Jane’s 7-year-old daughter, Kelsey, lay in the intensive care unit, shaking from seizures, Jane needed people to listen to her and trust her. Jane — not a textbook — knew which of the five ...

Six years ago, a breast cancer diagnosis disrupted Gloria Denston's life, and the nurse of 30 years shifted from caregiver to patient. As a medical professional, even she couldn’t escape the medical ...

Pam Mackey had a gut feeling that the lump in her breast was cancer, but she told herself it was just a cyst. But then it grew. “I was scared to do anything about it, but I told myself to just do it,” ...

Lack of transportation, language barriers and fear of medical procedures keep low-income Latinos out of the doctor’s office. Now a relatively new position in the health-care industry, known as a ...

Patient navigators guide patients and their families as they move through the health care system, both outside and inside hospitals. As Jane’s 7-year-old daughter, Kelsey, lay in the intensive care ...