Consumer Driven Health Care

Consumer-driven health care is a trend gaining ground in the employee benefits industry.

Drug deaths, obesity, diabetes and children living in poverty are all on the rise, muting the beneficial effect of declining smoking rates, a decrease in preventable hospitalizations and an increase in vaccinations among children.

Pharmaceutical companies responsible for some of the biggest price hikes in recent years earned bipartisan condemnation at a recent hearing of a Senate committee.

The rate of HIV infections in the U.S. dropped by 20 percent over the past decade, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control.

Americans know theyre overweight and theyre not particularly happy about it. But that doesnt mean theyre going to do much about it.

Nearly 9 million fewer Americans below the age of 65 said that they struggled to pay for medical expenses for themselves or somebody in their household during the first half of 2015 than in 2011, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.