Consumer Driven Health Care

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, most Americans say the landmark Supreme Court case establishing abortion rights should stand.

The American Medical Association is looking for a big idea on how to change the way future physicians are traineda $10 million idea, to be exact.

Health insurer WellPoint Inc. will revisit a tumultuous 2012 that included a CEO resignation and choppy earnings when it releases results on Wednesday from last year's final quarter.

Americans have a list of important ages. At 16, its time for a drivers license in most states. At 18, its time to register to vote. At 21, people can buy alcohol. At 25, auto insurance usually gets cheaper. The next watershed date in a persons life after that is...

Personal incomes dropped among a significant minority of primary care physicians, one reason thats causing them to reevaluate continuing their small practices, according to a survey from Physicians Practice. Almost 21 percent of survey respondents reported that their incomes dropped by more than 10 percent compared with 2011.

Regulations unveiled this week by the Obama administration create new information rights that should make life easier for consumers. They also tighten restrictions on medical service providers trying to use patient information for marketing, and they greatly expand the list of businesses that can be punished for unauthorized disclosures.