Consumer Driven Health Care

Drugmaker Merck & Co. said Friday that its first-quarter profit jumped 67 percent despite lower-than-expected sales, due to lower spending on production, marketing and research as well as an arbitration charge a year ago.

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WellPoint Inc. said Wednesday that its first-quarter profit fell nearly 8 percent as enrollment slipped and expenses rose, but the health insurer raised its earnings forecast for 2012.

Health insurer Aetna Inc. has branched out to start selling individual insurance plans to members of the wholesale club operator Costco in nine states.

More than half of Americans arent seeing their primary care physician for regular checkups, and many arent getting the vaccinations they need, a new survey from Walgreens finds.

Adults who had a mental illness in the past year have higher rates of certain physical illnesses, according to a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.