Consumer Driven Health Care

Despite health care overhaul, the future of medicine looks pretty bleakat least according to doctors. New research suggests that if physician practice trends continue, more than 44,000 physicians will be lost from the workforce in the next four years.

New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic.

Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants long-lasting and more effective birth control that you don't have to remember to use every time, the nation's leading gynecologists group said Thursday.

The Michigan Legislature took its first steps Wednesday toward tackling a proposed overhaul of the state's largest health insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.

Smokers in the United States are lighting up less than ever, according to a new Gallup poll.

WellPoint Inc., the nation's second largest health insurer, is providing a more bearish than anticipated forecast for 2013 earnings, according to a Leerink Swann analyst who is lowering his expectations for growth from the insurer's established business for the new year.