Wellness

Just yet another reason Hawaii seems like a dream place to live: Hawaii has the highest score for well-being, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, a poll that surveys the physical, mental and emotional health of Americans.

Forty-three percent of employees report weight loss as their top health concern this year, marking a 10 percent increase from 2011, according to recent poll by ComPsych Corporation, a provider of employee assistance programs.

I had a love/hate relationship with my FSA over this past year.

The University of New Hampshire opened a new health clinic Monday aimed at saving money and providing faculty and staff with more convenient options for their medical needs.

Columbia Laboratories said Monday that U.S. health regulators denied approval of its hormone-based gel designed to prevent premature birth. Shares of the small drugmaker plummeted more than 8 percent on the news.

It might ring like some kind of campaign rhetoric you might hear on the stump in a battleground state like Ohio, but it's true: Even though they're barely 11 years old, consumer driven health plans are our future.

A loophole in Hawaii's tobacco tax law makes smokeless tobacco products and "little cigars" cost-friendlier alternatives to cigarettes. As a result, increased tobacco taxes only impact smoking rates, but have not led to any significant decreases in the use of chewing tobacco, snuff and tobacco sticks and pellets. A bill...

Drugmaker Glenmark Generics says it is recalling seven lots of birth control pills because in some packages, the pills were in the wrong order.