Wellness

The Express Scripts 2010 Drug Trend Report shows a gap between patients’ intentions and actions. Bridging the two can help save costs.

Internal medicine practitioner Slovis points out that employee walking boosts productivity and saves health costs

Opioid misuse and abuse are leading some doctors to require their patients to sign "pain contracts" spelling out rules patients must follow to take the drugs safely. Patients who don't sign may be dropped from those doctors' practices.

If your health insurer says "no" to a claim, don't be afraid to appeal it -- under the right circumstances, such appeals can succeed.

Arizona's cash-strapped Medicaid program is considering charging patients $50 a year if they smoke, have diabetes or are overweight.

A two-decade Swedish study on prostate cancer screening deepens the controversy about whether screening actually has an impact on the death rate from this disease.