Nearly three-quarters (70 percent) of employers use social media to screen candidates before hiring, up significantly from 60 percent last year.

One way to garner bipartisan support for malpractice reform would be to focus on 'defensive medicine' and how it impacts overall costs, so experts say.

According to a survey, cancer patients and survivors are concerned government decisions may limit their access to health care and insurance.

'Every taxpayer dollar that goes to someone committing fraud is a dollar that is not going to help working families and those who truly need and deserve assistance,' Lou Barletta, the bill's author, says.

Based on analysis of price growth and estimated rebate levels for the top 200 brand drugs by 2016 U.S. sales, a PCMA study finds no correlation between increasing prices set on individual drugs and the rebates negotiated with PBMs.

While nearly 80 percent of the respondents say their medical care is good or great, there are differences across the generations about their wish lists for health care.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Brookings Institution looks at three existing proposals, saying none of them are likely to pass.

Poor living conditions and nutrition, unhealthy and stressful work environments, large income inequalities and other factors have been linked to poor health in the U.S., and all of them disproportionately affect low-income populations.