HEALTH: 'Global Response Needed for Global (Flu) Challenge'

By Emilio Godoy MEXICO CITY, Jul 2 (IPS) - Health ministers and representatives of 43 countries and the World Health Organisation (WHO) began to meet ...

Obama's health care army marches

As the White House makes its push to reform the health care system, President Barack Obama's Organizing for America group is gearing up to make the case in ...

Health Care Reform And Employer Mandates: The Strange Case Of Wal-Mart

But if there is any justice, it will cause us to see “universal health insurance” for what it is; just another way to subsidize big corporations. ...

Health reform follows broken Medicare model

Americans are looking to Congress and the White House to see whether lawmakers and the president will deliver on their promises to reform our health care ...

Wisconsin obesity rates: 26 percent of adults, 28 percent of children

That's about the same as last year, according to a new study by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. ...

Make tests routine

All testing of individuals yields protected health information, which health care providers must keep confidential under existing standards of practice and ...

Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1000 under a health care overhaul bill ...

Stimulus grant fills cuts to community health

Washington state's community health-care system will share in an $850 million national stimulus grant. Credit Sen. Patty Murray for keeping a focus on the ...