Consumer Driven Health Care

Using mobile health technology to monitor patients in poor urban areas could improve residents' access to health care while also reducing health care spending, a study conducted in a Rio de Janeiro hillside "favela" slum suggested.

Some consumers trying to save a few bucks in the poor economic climate have an unfortunate solution: delaying dental care.

Though theres no denying consumer driven health care's growing popularity, theres still a lot of work to be done.

Indoor tanning beds would come with new warnings about the risk of cancer and be subject to more stringent federal oversight under a proposal unveiled Monday by the Food and Drug Administration.

The Obama administration lauded its Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and its implications on seniors Friday in honor of May being Older Americans Month.

American International Group said Thursday that its first-quarter net income fell 31 percent from a year earlier, when the insurer benefited from $3.3 billion in investment income.