Wellness

Some low-income Planned Parenthood of Indiana patients were left fending for themselves Tuesday to pay for birth control, breast exams, Pap tests and other medical services while a court battle continued over a new state law that eliminated the organization's Medicaid funding.

The economy has made consumers more cautious about health care spending and forced some to reduce it considerably, according to a Deloitte Center for Health Solutions survey.

Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer.

Plain and simple, today's health care costs in the United States are too high. In 2008, they amounted to about $2.2 trillion or 16.2 percent of the gross national product. The average per employee cost for health care was $9,144, up 8 percent from 2007.

You're sitting in a freshly dry-walled house, drinking coffee from a Styrofoam cup and talking on a cellphone. Which of these is most likely to be a cancer risk?

Americans are living longer, but not in every corner of the country. A new study shows that in hundreds of U.S. counties — mostly in the South — life expectancy has fallen.

Stories are popping up everywhere about employers who are refusing to hire workers who smoke, or are tacking on a premium penalty, or even offering a quitting incentive, hoping to reduce health care costs and increase productivity.

A round-up of the week’s employee benefits news, reports and controversy from around the web