Consumer Driven Health Care

How pot could save health reform, why 80 is the new 65 and whats up with wellness

Im not the only one who doesnt always finish her prescription. And its starting to piss doctors off.

The blockbuster drug Avastin should no longer be used in advanced breast cancer patients because there's no proof that it extends their lives and it presents dangerous side effects, the government declared Friday.

A global vaccines group said Thursday it was working to buy shots to protect up to 2 million women and girls in poor countries from cervical cancer.

Consumer-driven benefits provider WageWorks recently launched a new mobile application designed to minimize the claim process for health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.

Everything you need to know about health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts in 2012

With an eye on both their employees health and their bottom line, employer plans are rapidly embracing value-based health care. This outcome-driven, consumer-centered approach focuses not on the dollars being spent, but on how the dollars being spent can improve employees health (and keeping them healthy).

More than 20 percent of American adults took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression in 2010, according to an analysis of prescription data, including more than one in four women.