Consumer Driven Health Care

The Food and Drug Administration is planning to spend about $600 million over five years to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco use. Declines in U.S. smoking rates have stalled in recent years.

The average premiums and deductibles Americans are paying for their health care increased significantly in the past year, according to a new eHealth report.

Dermatologists will soon get some high-tech help deciding which suspicious-looking moles should be removed and checked for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Whether sipping beer, wine or whiskey, women who drink just three alcoholic beverages a week face slightly higher chances for developing breast cancer compared with teetotalers, a study of more than 100,000 U.S. nurses found.

Our seventh annual competition features a few surprises, a lot of stalwarts and more broker votes than ever before.

First lady Michelle Obama led peppy toddlers at a New Orleans daycare center in calisthenics and read them a book about a mouse that eats green peas, bidding to get America's children eating better and exercising more.

The number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers more than tripled over a decade, the government reported Tuesday a trend that a U.S. health official called an epidemic, but one that can be stopped.

It's become a regular exercise in budget brinksmanship. Medicare is again warning that doctors face draconian pay cuts on Jan. 1 unless Congress acts.