Consumer Driven Health Care

Whether sipping beer, wine or whiskey, women who drink just three alcoholic beverages a week face slightly higher chances for developing breast cancer compared with teetotalers, a study of more than 100,000 U.S. nurses found.

Our seventh annual competition features a few surprises, a lot of stalwarts and more broker votes than ever before.

First lady Michelle Obama led peppy toddlers at a New Orleans daycare center in calisthenics and read them a book about a mouse that eats green peas, bidding to get America's children eating better and exercising more.

The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped.

It's become a regular exercise in budget brinksmanship. Medicare is again warning that doctors face draconian pay cuts on Jan. 1 unless Congress acts.

Shares of Pharmasset Inc. climbed Tuesday after the company said it is starting late-stage clinical trials of an experimental hepatitis C drug.