Health Care

Budget Battles

  • 5 Things No One Ever Tells You About Retirement

    By Kathryn Tuggle, MainStreet

    If you love your job, retirement can be more difficult than you might expect. Sure, hanging out on the golf course, traveling and sleeping in all sound great, but for many people the transition from...

  • The Health Secret Few Doctors Discuss with Patients

    By Richard Stevens, The Conversation

    Today most people do not get enough sleep. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has called insufficient sleep an epidemic . While we are finally paying attention to the importance of...

  • Demystifying Health Care: 3 Key Questions Answered

    By Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News

    Readers continue to have questions about how the health insurance marketplaces work and coverage requirements there. This week I answered some recent queries. QUESTION #1 : I purchased health...

  • More over-the-counter sleep aids are bought than any other OTC drug, and 25 percent of us take a sleep med every year. Popular brands include Nytol, Benadryl, Sominex, Tylenol PM, Advil PM and Nyquil. In 2010 alone, more than 1 in 20 adults took prescribe

    Medicare’s Budget Busting $4.5 Billion for Hep-C Drugs

    By Eric Pianin

    First it was the Department of Veterans Affairs nervously complaining about the fast-mounting cost of providing a new specialty drug to treat patients with the deadly Hepatitis-C virus, and then some...

  • Should You Eat That White Powdered Dunkin’ Donut?

    By Andrew Maynard, The Conversation

    In response to pressure from the advocacy group As You Sow , Dunkin’ Brands has announced that it will be removing allegedly “nano” titanium dioxide from Dunkin’ Donuts’ powdered sugar donuts. As You...