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Health insurance study shows that Texas has the highest rates of uninsured. Hispanics in Texas are less likely to be covered than blacks and whites. In other words health insurance is less affordable for Hispanics. The first ever study from U.S. Census Bureau looked at health insurance rates in very details for 2005. Data was analysed and broken down by state, race to show the exact situation in all states. read more

When drug makers made an announcement this week that they no longer recommend cold remedies for those under 4, they didn't let on that it was the government's idea.

The president and chief executive of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield defended the regional insurance giant as a "generous" benefactor to the community at a D.C. Council committee hearing yesterday, and a parade of nonprofit organizations backed up his claim.

GLASGOW Airport car bomb hero John Smeaton was fighting for his life last night.

DEATHS linked to the MRSA superbug in Scotland have more than tripled in a decade, figures revealed yesterday.

IT was supposed to be one of the happiest days of his life.

HOME care for some elderly and vulnerable people in the Capital is to be changed.

A CAMPAIGN has been launched to remind Edinburgh students of the dangers of meningitis.

An advocacy group is suing over an Oklahoma law that prohibits a woman from having an abortion unless she first has an ultrasound and the doctor describes to her what the fetus looks like.

National Institutes of health (NIH) scientists have identified a protein that plays matchmaker between two key types of white blood cells, T and B cells, enabling them to interact in a way that is crucial to establishing long-lasting immunity after an infection. Their finding may also explain why some individuals who have a genetic defect that prevents them from making this protein-called SAP-suffer from lethal infections with a common virus that otherwise is rarely fatal (Epstein-Barr virus), while others with this genetic defect have problems with B-cell lymphomas. read more