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In late July, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) announced a plan he hopes will help businesses be able to afford health insurance for their employees. Unfortunately, his plan would perpetuate today's problems and add new bureaucracy in the process.Under Obama's plan, small businesses would get refundable tax credits to offset 50 percent of the amount they pay for health insurance for their workers. The federal government would take over a share of the catastrophic costs of high-cost employees.Discriminatory Subsidiesread more

GENEVA : The head of the World Health Organization says anti-smoking campaigns are the world's best weapon in the fight against cancer.

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D) has signed legislation requiring coverage for autism be included in all health insurance policies sold within the state.The new health insurance law raises to 39 the total number of treatments and conditions required by law to be included in every health insurance policy sold in Pennsylvania.read more

Madrid - The Spanish health authorities are investigating the death of a woman whose son died earlier of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease, experts said Wednesday in Madrid...

Fresh questions have been raised about Asif Zardari, the man poised to become Pakistan's next president, after it was revealed that doctors who examined him said he was suffering from severe mental ...

London, Aug 27 : Booze, drugs, cigarettes and sex are adversely affecting the health of British teenagers, says a new report.

A drop in the number of people who lacked health insurance last year reflects a push by states to cover more lower-income adults ...

The Federal Health Department says the roll-out of a fuel that does not give sniffers a high has been delayed, because there is nowhere in the Northern Territory to store it.

A Senate report into lifting the Medicare levy surcharge says it should go ahead, despite it being difficult to calculate how it will affect Australia's health system.

The Queensland Health Minister has hit back at Opposition claims that hospitals across the state are in crisis.