This year, award-winning starlet Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, after genetic testing showed an 87 percent chance that the actress would develop breast cancer. In light of Jolie's very public medical announcement, many women with a family history of cancer considered taking a similar genetic test.

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The year 2012 may not have been the most flourishing of years for some health insurance companies around the globe, but data for the first quarter of 2013 looks promising for many of the world's largest, most well-established medical insurance providers. Among those releasing encouraging figures, Cigna, AXA, Munich Health…

Globalsurance continues to see differing indications of the state of the health insurance industry in China. Most analysts concur that the country’s high-income earning population are not likely to buy comprehensive health insurance in the short term. Many of the health insurance companies that have invested in developing on-shore solutions for health…

Cigna & CMC Life Insurance Co., Ltd., Cigna's Chinese joint venture company, is adding a new product to its portfolio. The new health management product named Cigna & CMC CARE+ will afford policyholders of Cigna & CMC's high end health insurance plans access to a number of new services and benefits. As a joint venture between Cigna and China Merchants Group, Cigna & CMC operates as a health, life…

Cigna Inc, the leading international group health insurer for expatriates and other individuals traveling abroad, was today granted a license to operate in the Singapore health insurance market. The move reaffirms the company's commitment to developing its international business…

The US Health Reform law mandates that by 2014, US citizens must have health insurance coverage or otherwise pay a hefty US$695 annual fine. It is estimated that the Health Reform will reduce the number of the uninsured from 19% of US citizens in 2010 to 8% by 2016. The Health Reform law imposes new regulations and fees on insurers, and although it expands coverage to the millions of uninsured Americans,…

CIGNA International Expatriate Benefits has broadened its African healthcare network with 47,000 healthcare facilities on March 17, 2010. The new additions to CIGNA International's healthcare facility network is part of its unveiling of CIGNALinks Africa which opens in Morocco, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa; taking their network of health facilities…

As part of CIGNA's continued efforts to expand its international business base, it counts now with a network of 4,000 hospitals and clinics in Russia, as per announcement released early this week.

Cigna International Insurance has acquired Kronos Optimal Health Company of Phoenix, Arizona USA as part of an effort to expand their on-site health-management programmes for companies and their employees.

CIGNA International has announced an initiative to develop and distribute individual private medical insurance on the international stage. Currently, CIGNA only offers international private medical insurance to corporations and group customers. The new business plan will open up new markets of potential clients as they aim to sell private medical insurance to…