Sector: Health Care Providers and Services

Insurers, hospitals and doctors say they are forming partnerships and creating programs to find ways to slow the growth in the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care bill. The New York Times reports.

Starting a small business is a risky proposition. If you’re worried about how yours might fare during a downturn, consider a recession-proof industry, which caters to ongoing demands. Its odds of weathering economic storms are better than those that don’t.

For the second anniversary of the passage of President Obama's health care reform, Mitt Romeny writes that "it is past time to abolish the program, root and branch."

Mainland Chinese who have a second child in Hong Kong will be fined for breaching China's one-child policy, Chinese media quoted a family planning official as saying, as mainland Chinese women flock to the former British colony to give birth.

The world is rapidly aging. A whopping two billion people will be 60 years and older by 2050, more than triple the number in 2000, according the WHO. We've come up with a list of countries with the starkest gap between the number of old and the number of young. Find out which countries have the biggest gap between old and young.

After some lean times in 2009, Weight Watchers decided to "take destiny by the horns" and become more aggressive in getting the overweight to lose pounds using its program.

In court papers filed Friday, accused ponzi schemer Allen Stanford's court-appointed attorney said he will call on two neurologists, a neuropsychologist, a forensic psychiatrist, a medical doctor and a staff psychiatrist to testify at a hearing on whether Stanford is competent to stand trial.