Health

Pharmacies and grocery stores sitting on too much stock

President Obama will announce today how he will pay for his $447 billion jobs plan, and Medicare and Medicaid are on the table. But what's left to cut, and will it help or hurt the health care industry?

Greater affluence in emerging economies has produced a surge in the incidence of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

German scientists are using 3D printing technology to print blood vessels that efficiently supply nutrients to artificial organs. The missing link…

Researchers think they've found a new way to cure tinnitus, the constant ear-ringing that some people suffer from. It's believed that the ringing…

And creates thousands of health care jobs. But at what cost?

Researchers at Stanford University have invented a pain detector. They can now tell if someone is in pain using brain scans and that means they don…

Walked into a lamppost? Yeah, there's a medical code for that. The Wall Street Journal's Anna Mathews discusses why the medical coding system is getting a makeover.

At the crossroads of our national debate about jobs and our national debate about health care debt… Is the (fictional) city of Hobbs. Its …

The cost of health care has grown astronomically in the U.S., and a new study finds that high doctor fees are to blame.