Legacy Topic: Health Care

With millions of newly insured patients ready to descend on the health care system, there won't be enough primary care doctors to go around.

A new drug, in the final stages of approval by the FDA, could make it easier to give addicts medication without using pills and risking abuse.

Ten percent of all health care dollars are spent in the last year of life. Those final days are when the toughest, most costly decisions are made, and emotion can easily overrun decision making. Here's one man's story about the choices he made.

You don't often hear about a 79-to-20 vote in the U.S. Senate, but that's exactly what happened last night. The chamber voted overwhelmingly to repeal a tax on medical devices.

Workers covered by CVS pharmacy’s health plan will have to report their weight and other wellness information or pay a monthly fee. The new policy shows how companies, in addition to offering incentives for workers to become healthier, are adding penalties for those who don’t shape up. It's all about lowering healthcare costs.

At medical schools across the country, more than 30,000 aspiring doctors are meeting their matches and finding out where they will spend the next several years as residents.

Drug manufacturers can charge very different prices for essentially the same generic medicine.

How does living with a disease like HIV affect one's financial choices?

New research says diabetes cost the nation a record $245 billion in 2012, up more than 40 percent in the past five years.

For states considering not to expand Medicaid, the program for the poor and disabled, it's all a numbers game.