RIGHT about now, as you’re dusting off your beach gear, may seem the wrong time to talk about next fall’s open enrollment for health insurance.

A fight has broken out between the nation’s biggest drugstore chains, Walgreen and CVS Caremark, potentially affecting where millions of consumers can fill their prescriptions.

The glue that binds a human society together is trust. But people who trust others too much are likely to get taken for a ride. Both trust and distrust, it now seems, are influenced by hormones that can induce people to ratchet their feeling of trust u

Safety Features Planned for Radiation Machines

Americans comparison-shop for items as small as groceries and as big as cars. But they rarely compare prices on their health care. When a doctor recommends a test or a procedure, most patients simply go where the doctor tells them to go.

Safety: Distracted Driving as a Medical Condition

Uninsured Americans often have difficulty getting care and paying for medications. But what happens once they are admitted to a hospital with a life-threatening illness?

Singing the Praises of Fennel

Behavior: No Sex, Please: You’re Sleeping

Study Examines a Diet From TV Ads

Your chance of surviving sudden cardiac arrest may depend on what neighborhood you live in, a new study suggests.

Small Advances Against Pancreatic Cancer

Two Health Care Adversaries Find a Need to Collaborate

Amgen Drug Approved to Fight Osteoporosis

Bringing Doctors to the Dying Patient’s Bedside

Defeating the Lice Without Emptying Your Wallet

Who Pays for Medical Complications?

No Matter What, We Pay for Others’ Bad Habits

Molecular imaging has a powerful new weapon in the fight against prostate cancer.

Guys Take it Harder, Turn to Drugs and Alcohol