Date: Wed, 26. August 2009 22:06:00

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration and Democrats wrangled over the timing, shape and cost of health care overhaul efforts during the first half of the year, more than half the $1.1 million in campaign contributions the Democratic Party's Blue Dog Coalition received came from the pharmaceutical, health care and health insurance industries, according to watchdog organizations.

Date: Sat, 4. July 2009 04:23:54

AP - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

Date: Thu, 29. January 2009 03:43:11

(AHN) - Despite a sharp increase in the number of midwives, health facilities, female health workers and educated girls in Afghanistan a dramatic number of women are still dying, United Nations officials warned on Monday. - Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:46:02 GMT

Date: Fri, 22. January 2010 06:07:48

A key legislative committee in California revived a bill Thursday to create a government-run health care system in the nation's most populous state, two days after Massachusetts elected a senator who opposes the president's national health care plan.

Date: Sat, 7. November 2009 00:35:13

Canada's CPP Investment Board will become a "significant minority investor" in IMS Health after the big U.S. health care software and data management company agreed Thursday to be acquired by the big Canadian pension fund and its American partner for US$4 billion.

Date: Wed, 15. July 2009 14:01:00

Cisco and health insurer UnitedHealth Group are piloting a network that connects patients and health care providers through video conferencing technology, which would allow patients to be diagnosed through the use of biomedical imaging technology from remote locations.

Date: Sat, 7. March 2009 03:29:01

WASHINGTON — The time is right to overhaul America's broken health-care system, Barack Obama declared. And he got no disagreement from a roomful of health-care insiders — some of whom fought to kill previous attempts.

Date: Sun, 11. October 2009 23:03:02

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- It's a trend that has health experts worried: Young kids are becoming increasingly oversized -- leading, they fear, to overweight teens and, ultimately, overweight adults with health problems.

Date: Mon, 12. October 2009 03:48:27

HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 11 (HealthDay News) -- It's a trend that has health experts worried: Young kids are becoming increasingly oversized -- leading, they fear, to overweight teens and, ultimately, overweight adults with health problems.

Date: Sun, 2. November 2008 05:07:49

As part of the ongoing poll series, Debating Health: Election 2008, the Harvard Public Opinion Research Program at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harris Interactive conducted a new survey focused on ...