The Senate has passed a bill that temporarily spares doctors from a 21% cut in Medicare payments. The House will take up the bill next week. So how do you lower Medicare costs without paying doctors less? Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
A new study shows a clear link between the price of soda and how much we drink. Will this help states' quest to pass a soda tax? Gregory Warner explains.
Health care reform — most of it, anyway — doesn't kick in until 2014. But businesses are worried now that it will hit them hard in the pocketbook. That's why the White House released new rules aimed at keeping employers from raising premiums or scaling back care in advance. Janet Babin reports.
Walgreen's got a lot of attention recently when it said it would start selling personal genetic kits in its stores. But after questions were raised about the safety and effectiveness of the kits, it said it wouldn't. Now the FDA is stepping in. Gregory Warner reports.
A coalition of drug companies is releasing a new database on Alzheimer's disease today to help lower research and development costs and get drugs the market faster.
About 12,000 nurses in the Twin Cities this morning are planning the largest hospital walkout in U.S. history in a national movement challenging the way hospitals are run.
David Zinczenko, editor-in-chief of Men's Health, talks with Kai Ryssdal about his new book, "Drink This, Not That!," and why beverages were made so fatty in the first place.
