In their first days of operation, U.S. health insurance exchanges see satisfied customers, technical glitches, and a government shutdown.

With Obamacare state exchanges opening in less than a week, the law’s benefits and flaws are coming under a huge amount of media scrutiny.

The UK drug company GSK is still under investigation of illegally bribing hospitals and doctors in China in order to increase sales.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control serves as an important reminder that in the United States and abroad, antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a threat to health.

Recent work from the American Medical Association aims to enroll patients in online insurance marketplaces, while opposing the Independent Payment Advisory Board.

In April 2010, the United Nations reported that people in India had an easier time accessing a mobile phone than they did accessing proper sanitation services. That U.N. study, entitled ‘Economic Impact of Inadequate Sanitation in India,’ showed that a lack of hygienic toilet facilities and other adequate sanitation was leading to costly health problems, serious illness and even death…

At the beginning of this month, Oman reported gross insurance premium rises of more than 13 percent during the first half of 2013. According to numbers from the Capital Market Authority, gross written insurance premiums had grown to OMR202.4…

In the United States, insurance providers are eagerly preparing for the opening of health insurance marketplaces in less than a month. On the first of October, state exchanges will begin to sell insurance to individuals as well as employers, and although many of the recent insurance publicity campaigns target…

In the more than three years since the passage of Obamacare in March, 2010, U.S. Republicans have found a number of ways to express their displeasure with the health care bill. Republican senators have nearly 40 times tried to repeal or delay the Affordable Care Act, and in state-level government, many Republican governors have refused to take federal money and expand their Medicaid programs.…

Health care workers are essential to the treatment of disease, but strange as it may sound, health care workers are also responsible for causing it. Around the world, many cases of infection occur at health care facilities. This issue, known as health care-associated infection (HCAI), is one that the World Health Organization has been working for many years to solve, in order to reduce…