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Colorado selects required health insurance benefits

DENVER (AP) – The state of Colorado has notified the federal government it has selected the Kaiser State Employee Plan as its 2017 benchmark plan representing essential health benefits, offi...

Chocolate cake may be good for the ticker

Ahh, chocolate. There probably isn’t a more magical ingredient on Earth than the sweet, dark-brown flavoring used for more than 3,000 years. Today, most chocolate is consumed in the form of ...

Helping out mothers

Event raises postpartum depression awareness

Helping a surgeon’s hand

Robot arm improves precision of knee, hip operations

Problem drinking affects 33 million – 14 percent of U.S. adults

CHICAGO – Alcohol problems affect almost 33 million adults and most have never sought treatment, according to a government survey that suggests rates have increased in recent years. ...

Cancer doctor leads attack on astronomical drug prices

As the one-year cost of cancer drugs edges up to $200,000 per patient, a top doctor from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used his speech before a massive gathering of colleagues to ca...

Don’t take a seat: Panel says you should stand for 2 hours

LONDON – Are you sitting down? In that case, you should probably stand up before reading this. In the first advice of its kind, British experts are recommending office workers s...

Moderate drinking may have 'cardiotoxic' effects in elderly hearts

Moderate drinkers who like a glass of wine or beer with dinner have long taken comfort in the fact that most doctors believe this habit could do no harm or could even be good for one’s healt...

NIH: Major study finds earlier HIV treatment improves health

WASHINGTON – A major international study sought to settle how soon is best to start HIV treatment – and the advice is don’t delay. People who started anti-AIDS drugs while their i...

For stem cells, it’s the ‘Wild West’

Experimental treatments promise healing

Paths to independence

Center assists disabled with accessing services, being mobile

Insured? Yes. Protected? No.

Out-of-pocket costs could be too much for 23% of adults