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Humana Chief Executive Mike McCallister is getting the company ready for a time when its Medicare Advantage service won't be subsidized by the federal government.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Ohio hospitals are bracing for a new state fee that begins Monday. The move comes as many hospitals are cutting jobs and medical services amid the recession.
The Crisis Intervention Center on West Drive in Laurel will celebrate five years in operation on Monday, Nov. 30.
I have seen the consequences of a health care system in need of reform – too few insured, too costly for others and too little quality for all. Unsustainable growth in the cost of health care and the continued denial of coverage to millions of Americans is evidence that our health care system has failed. These failings are amplified in rural America, where folks pay more for health care than ...
As politicians in Washington battle over details of health care reform, tens of millions of Americans continue to deal with the stresses of having no health insurance.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has a approved the Agriflu vaccine, a new seasonal flu vaccine for people 18-years-old and older.
As the Washtenaw County Jail continues to undergo construction, adding 112 beds to a facility that has experienced overcrowding, residents gathered Nov. 12 to discuss the challenges and the uncertain future facing the jail.
Students attending Stevenson and Apollo elementary schools in East Maine School Dist. 63 are returning consent forms to receive the H1N1 flu vaccine from the Cook County Dept. of Public Health (CCDPH).
Will pro-choice Democrats kill health-care reform? Probably not—and that's a good thing.
David Kessler is no fan of Taco Bell's "Fourthmeal" ("the meal between dinner and breakfast"). The former administrator of the Food and Drug Administration hates how restaurants and food makers relentlessly push the overconsumption of food as if it were a good thing.
SPANISH FORK, Utah - A Utah cave's narrow crevice that trapped and eventually killed a medical student will become his final resting place, and the dangerous cavern will be permanently sealed.
A health insurance plan and a program to benefit high school students were among the items mentioned by Montana Chamber of Commerce president/CEO Webb Brown during a visit to Sidney Tuesday.
LITTLE ROCK — Spirited national debates on landmark issues have given Arkansas television stations plenty to be thankful for — a steady flow of political ad spending at a time when a trickle is normal.
WASHINGTON — Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment.
WASHINGTON -- The young invincibles. That's what the insurance industry calls them. They're the 13.7 million Americans under 30 who don't have health insurance because, they firmly believe, they just don't need it. Why waste money on something they're too healthy to ever use?
The number of people with diabetes in the United States is expected to double over the next 25 years, a new study predicts.That would bring the total by 2034 to about 44.1 million people with the disease, up from 23.7 million today.At the same time, the cost of treating people with diabetes will triple, the study also warns, rising from an estimated $113 billion in 2009 to $336 billion in 2034 ...
