Consumer Driven Health Care

In addition to all the other challenges the military face, many military households have to face an extra financial burden: caring for an elderly family member.

Norton Healthcare has become the latest health care system to require its employees to get flu vaccines.

UnitedHealth Group's third-quarter net income jumped 23 percent to trump expectations, as preparations for retiring Baby Boomers started to pay off for the nation's largest health insurer. UnitedHealth also raised its 2012 earnings forecast.

When I get sick, I do what any other rational 28-year-old woman would do: I call my mother, complain, then ask her what I should do.

Tobacco companies are urging a federal judge to reject the government's proposed industry-financed corrective statements, calling them "forced public confessions."

Two more drugs from a specialty pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak are now being investigated, U.S. health officials said, as they urged doctors to contact patients who got any kind of injection from the company.