TIME this week released its "100 Most Influential People" list, which includes more than a dozen leaders and change-makers in health care. Find out who made the cut.

Intermountain Healthcare and SCL Health on Thursday signed a letter of intent to merge. If finalized, the merger will create an $11 billion health system across six states that will employ nearly 60,000 health care providers.

A new poll from Monmouth University sheds light on where Americans stand when it comes to President Joe Biden's new vaccine rules, as well as state-by-state mask and social distancing guidelines.

As more workers around the country are required to be vaccinated against Covid-19, thousands are seeking religious exemptions to the mandates—sometimes forcing employers to determine whether an individual is inappropriately seeking a "loophole" to avoid vaccination.

China fully vaccinates 1 billion people, the National Institutes of Health awards nearly $470 million for studies on "long Covid," and more in this week's roundup of Covid-19 news.

Some of the top Broadway musicals have reopened after being shut down for 18 months during the pandemic, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from California, Georgia, and New York.

The difficulties of parenting amid the delta variant, how wildfires have affected wines grown in the western United States, and more.