Are your marriage certificate and your kids' birth certificates handy? You may need them to continue health coverage for your family or if you start a new job.
The renowned Mayo Clinic is no longer accepting some Medicare and Medicaid patients, raising new questions about whether it is too selective to serve as a model for health-care reform.
I've been thinking a lot about cheese lately. More accurately, I always think a lot about cheese. Cheese is my chocolate, the food I crave most, the one that always tastes great, no matter what. I could top cardboard with melted cheddar and find it luscious.
During her treatment for vocal cord cancer last year, Cookie Kerxton of Chevy Chase had 28 radiation treatments, in which a beam was aimed at her throat for 10 minutes at a time while a mask covered her face and part of her neck. When it was all over, she asked a medical technician what other pat...
The industry heavyweights President Obama neutralized through the summer are agitating that the health-care bills in Congress violate agreements they made with the White House, leave 25 million Americans uninsured and have the potential to increase medical costs.
After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.
The number of children who have died from swine flu has jumped sharply as the virus continues to spread widely around the United States, striking youngsters, teenagers, young adults and pregnant women unusually often, federal officials said Friday.
D'Angelo Greene sat down in the school cafeteria in Landover on Friday morning to do his public health duty. A nurse put a plastic sprayer up one of D'Angelo's nostrils, then the other. Into each went 0.1 milliliter of Influenza A H1N1 vaccine.
Following a protest by Prince George's hospital system workers over the county's decision to withhold $3 million from the system, a county spokesman said Thursday that it will be getting a payment later this month -- of $2 million.
Congressional Republicans fired back Wednesday at the White House public relations campaign for health-care reform, highlighting concerns voiced by two Democratic governors about a possible expansion of Medicaid.
