The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes...

NY Times - New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children...

About 50 million Americans had contracted pandemic H1N1 influenza through Nov. 14, according to the newest CDC estimates meaning that about 15% of the entire country has been infected, about 1 in every 6 people. The agency also reported that more than...

A Senate plan to cut Medicare to pay for an overhaul of the health system would threaten the profitability of roughly one in five hospitals and nursing homes over the next decade, according to a new analysis by the...

Reuters - Inuit communities need funds to adapt to climate change in the Arctic, including measures to build communal deep freezers to store game because warming is reducing their hunting season, an Inuit leader said . . . ICC chairman James Stotts...