Even though most of us don’t talk much about it, almost everyone would like to leave this life in a pain-free, peaceful, dignified manner.  And dignity at the time of death is exactly what every …

The New York Times released a recent report regarding a connection between a tobacco company and a funded lung cancer study. In 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College stunned the cancer world …

The city of San Francisco’s Health Commission will cut $28.1 million in health care costs to help the city bridge a $251 million budget gap for the 2008-09 fiscal year. About half of those …

Fidelity Investments just released information pointing to retiree couples needing $225,000 in retirement to cover their health care costs. This figure is an increase of 4.7% over last year’s number.

The amount of money Americans spent on health care in 2007 is somewhat staggering – a whopping 16.3% of the national gross domestic product (GDP). GDP is the sum total of the value of …

Some alarming news has just been released from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College about the projected costs of health care expenses Baby Boomers can expect to face in retirement. Most Americans …

A study released this week by the American Cancer Society outlined disturbing differences in survival rates among insured versus uninsured patients. The study, which appears in the March issue of The Lancet Oncology, is the …

President Bush received praise from House Republican Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) for his Medicare proposal that is expected to put Medicare on the track of economic stability.