Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Pear, a health reporter who spent four decades as a correspondent for the New York Times, died on Tuesday following ...

In the hands of many Washington reporters, the ins and outs of Medicare and Medicaid, the Clinton administration’s failed health-care overhaul and President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act could be ...

Veteran New York Times health care reporter Robert Pear died Tuesday at the age of 69 following complications from a stroke, the newspaper reported. During his four decades with the Times, Pear wrote ...

With “a heavy heart,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer paid tribute to Robert Pear, a longtime Washington journalist for The New York Times, who was also an undergraduate classmate of Schumer ...

The Capitol was shaken Wednesday by the sudden death of one of the deans of the congressional press corps, Robert Pear of The New York Times. But perhaps no one in the Senate had known Pear longer ...

I stumbled into a career in health policy a few years after college by responding to an ad from a niche health care industry newsletter seeking a reporter to cover Capitol Hill. I knew nothing about ...

As an investigative reporter at The New York Times, I had my share of major exclusives, but the best thing I ever did for the newspaper was to suggest its editors hire Robert Pear. Indeed, Robert ...