A new commentary has said that negative health effects associated with too much supplemental calcium are on the rise.

An Alberta researcher says that middle-aged Canadians are much less worried about the future than their American counter

A new Kaiser Permanente and Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board (NPAIHB) study says that community intervention

CIGNA Corp. hired Bertram “Bert” L. Scott to be the company’s president of U.S. Commercial lines. He starts June 28.

The newly created position will have Scott overseeing CIGNA’s U.S. products, sales, marketing, national accounts, regional accounts,…

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Blumenthal hit the airwaves Tuesday with three TV spots that play up the attorney general’s image as a defender of ordinary folks in the face of powerful corporate interests.

In each case, those powerful interests…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A tobacco tax loophole in President Barack Obama’s children’s health insurance program cost the government more than $250 million in its first year, public health officials say.

The loophole allowed companies to avoid huge tax…

The oil problem

The United States is often described as a “fix-it” nation; presented with a problem, we Americans actively seek to fix it. The problem is that some things, like the out-of-control oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, can’t be fixed….

What’s next for Gov. Charlie Crist in the wake of his vetoes last week of a good chunk of the Legislature’s business last session?

Impeachment? Incarceration?

That’s about what some pious GOP legislative leaders suggested would suit the Republican-…

Medicare Advantage plans with relatively low premiums and high levels of cost-sharing ended up with healthier enrollees in 2008 than other Medicare Advantage plans did.

Prudential P.L.C. may walk away from efforts to acquire American International Assurance Company from American International Group Inc.