Consumer Driven Health Care

You can't sugar-coat chef Jamie Oliver's warning on obesity--but will his hope for a sugar tax succeed?

Virtual health tools could cut $10 billion off the cost of primary care in the U.S., claims a report from Accenture, a major tech consulting firm.

If Martin Shkreli, the young hedge fund manager-turned-pharmaceutical executive who made news last month by jacking up the price of a life-saving medication by 5,000 percent, was surprised by the scorn his decision provoked, it was because his behavior was rather common.

A new study from JAMA Internal Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal, finds that costs have gone up as a result of hospitals acquiring doctor practices.

Medical data is legally shared with more third parties in health care than many Americans realize--and it can cause potentially deadly mistakes.

Blood-testing startup Theranos has a plan to get U.S. regulators to review its offerings one by one, Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Holmes said.