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Health Care Spending in US Grew at Lowest Rate in a Decade

6 (HealthDay News) -- Due to slower spending on prescription drugs, health-care spending in the United States grew at the lowest rate in a decade in 2007, ...

Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News

About 54 percent of adolescents who use the social networking website MySpace often discuss sexual behavior, substance abuse, or violence on the site, ...

Obama Wants Journalist for Surgeon General

Gupta later spoke with Tom Daschle, Obama's White House health czar and nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, and other advisers to the ...

Chronic Illness Accounts for 75 Percent of Health Spending

The closely watched annual health spending figures released today by the federal government were published, fittingly enough, in the January/February issue ...

Jobs’s Health Still Concerns Some Apple Shareholders

6 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs’s efforts to reassure Apple Inc.’s followers about his health left some investors with more questions than answers. ...

Morning Rounds Bird Flu, Fire Hazards and a Vaccine for Boys

By RONI CARYN RABIN Chinese health authorities have confirmed that a 19-year-old woman has died of the H5N1 bird flu virus, according to the World Health ...

Obama’s Health Care Resolutions Can’t Be Kept

By Robert E. Moffit -- that his health reform plan will save the typical American family $2500 annually in health care costs. Yet, if Obama sticks with the ...

Patrick intensifies state's push to curb soaring health premiums

Patrick's secretary of health and human services, Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, previously worked at Partners affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital, and attended ...

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