WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WellPoint Inc said that as of May 1 it would stop dropping healthcare coverage for customers after they get sick, responding to pressure from Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.
LONDON (Reuters) - The Baltic States risk seeing an upsurge in tuberculosis (TB) cases because of the recession brought about by the financial crisis, scientists said on Wednesday, and Latvia is particularly vulnerable.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The cost of imaging used on Medicare cancer patients is growing at twice the rate of overall cancer treatment costs as doctors order more scans and recommend more advanced tests, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Acupuncture may not help alleviate labor pain, according to a review of past studies trying to establish the efficacy of the treatment.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - People who are depressed eat more chocolate than people who are not, U.S. researchers said on Monday, in a study that puts numbers behind the link between mood and chocolate.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Addicted to smoking and unable to quit? Your genes may be partly to blame, according to a trio of studies published Sunday in Nature Genetics that link several gene variants to a range of smoking habits, as well as increased risk for lung cancer.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Over the past 15 years, survival rates among infants born extremely early (before 24 weeks of pregnancy) have not improved, but it’s not for lack of trying.
LONDON (Reuters) - A global pullback from AIDS funding may mean HIV could again become a death sentence for people in the developing world, according to a report released on Monday.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Over 10,000 workers in China are diagnosed with a deadly lung disease each year from breathing in dust from cutting gemstones and drilling rocks, but only a few manage to get compensation, said a rights organization.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Amitabh Bachchan, one of India’s top actors, whose disciplined, teetotaling life is somewhat rare in Bollywood, has said his liver has been partially destroyed by cirrhosis, requiring constant medical attention.