Legacy Topic: Health Care

Instead of offering policies to choose from, some big employers will be offering workers a lump sum and letting them shop for their own health care.

As the health care system gets more complex, more people are turning to patient advocates for help.

In recent years Americans have been replacing their knees at an remarkable rate.

Study finds growth in healthcare spending has reversed its post-recession slump.

Researchers have found that while moving out of poorer neighborhoods improves a person's health and general happiness, moving to a better-off region did not improve families' income.

Alabama joins a slew of lawmakers who are ambivalent about taking funds from the Fed to cover the millions more people who will become eligible for Medicaid under Obamacare.

More employers, public and private, are including wellness plans in their benefits to help employees become more fit, lowering health insurance costs.

Six years after sweeping health care reform, Massachusetts is still struggling to lower the cost of care.

Animal health care is the fastest growing sector of health care. Medicine for the pets we love and the livestock we eat is a more than $4 billion business for the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.

The giant discounter will soon begin offering a slew of shots aimed at boosting its health care business.