The private sector added 91,000 jobs in September, ADP said -- a total above the consensus estimate of 90,000, but still not large enough to indicate that employers have started hiring en masse.
The Obama administration on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to back the centerpiece of Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul -- the requirement that all Americans have health insurance.
Polls point to a minority government in Canada's economic powerhouse of Ontario after provincial elections next week, amid disillusionment with the ruling Liberals and disappointment with their main rivals.
Bill Clinton antagonist, flat tax supporter, staunch abortion opponent: all of these descriptions could apply to Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain, whose resounding win in a Florida straw poll catapulted the Godfather's pizza CEO into the conversation.
The cost of health insurance in the U.S. has exceeded worker's monthly wages, according to a new study carried out by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
The Obama administration declined to have an appeals court further review a decision on health care reform, which clears a path for the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the measure in June.
The bi-national health insurance was Perry’s one ambitious plan to provide Texas-funded coverage for both U.S. and Mexican border residents. Perry wanted to implement “an important study that will look at the feasibility of bi-national health insurance” that could “treat maladies unique to this region.”
A new poll states that Americans receive too much health and medical care. Around 42 per cent of the U.S. primary care physicians believe that their patients are receiving too much medical care.
President Obama criticized GOP candidates and audiences for taking shots at those who might die without healthcare and gay soldiers.
Some 2,500 nurses and other medical workers walked off the job at Kaiser Permanente facilities in southern California on Wednesday in a three-day planned strike protesting benefit cuts sought by the nonprofit healthcare giant.
Fewer newborn babies in China are dying today when compared to 1996, researchers found. A study shows that newborn deaths fell 62 percent, as it went from 24.7 per 1,000 live births in 1996 to 9.3 in 2008.
The Joint Commission has released its 2010 list of top-performing U.S. hospitals.
So far, relatively few states have made progress in establishing the health insurance exchanges that represent a central piece of the federal health care reform bill.
It's been overlooked -- it's received very little coverage by the popular press -- but it's worth repeating: one benefit of the 2010 U.S. health care reform legislation will be: enhanced job mobility.
Doctors are paid more in the United States than in any other country, a new study has revealed.
The powerful healthcare industry hopes a congressional super committee tasked with slashing America's debt will fail and is lobbying instead for automatic spending cuts that will kick in if the panel deadlocks.
The ailing U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of defaulting on a $5.5 billion payment unless Congress intervenes, sources told the New York Times.
The United States is worse than 40 other countries when it comes to infant mortality. A report published on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) said babies born in the U.S. have a higher risk of dying within the first month of life than babies born in 40 other countries.
Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) have built an on the go compact, light-weight, dual-mode microscope that is not only portable but also efficient. The prototype dual-mode microscope uses holograms instead of lenses as in the case of a traditional microscope. Published in the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal, Biomedical Optics Express, the UCLA researchers explain that the prototype not only weighs the same as a medium-sized banana but also fits within the ...
Verizon Communications is expected to prevail on key issues such as healthcare costs in its negotiations with unions but may end up postponing its plan to freeze pensions, according to experts who have been following the telephone company's labor dispute.
Verizon Communications is expected to prevail on key issues such as healthcare costs in its negotiations with unions but may end up postponing its plan to freeze pensions, according to experts who have been following the telephone company's labor dispute.
Obesity is most widespread in Britain and the United States among the world's leading economies and if present trends continue, about half of both men and women in the United States will be obese by 2030, health experts warned on Friday.
