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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Robert Pear, a reporter whose understated demeanor belied a tenacious pursuit of sources and scoops during his 40 years at The New York Times covering health care and other critical national issues, ...

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 ...

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Robert Pear, a health reporter who spent four decades as a correspondent for the New York Times, died on Tuesday following complications from a stroke, the paper revealed in a memo to staff Wednesday.