HEALTHCARE

Continually rising health care costs will account for one fifth of America's gross domestic product by 2020, a trend that will be driven only slightly by the Affordable Care Act, according to government analysis.

A Michigan-based legal group on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to review and overturn a decision that found President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law constitutional.

Siemens AG , Europe's largest engineering group, cautioned that global economic risks were increasing as its healthcare unit dragged quarterly results below expectations.

Worried about its rising healthcare costs, General Motors Co tried several years ago to buy a bar adjacent to its Janesville, Wisconsin assembly plant so it could eliminate a source of junk food and alcohol.

Florida lawmakers did not approve more than $50 million in federal child-abuse prevention funds that were tied to the Obama administration's healthcare reform package.

A new book by a New York Times reporter casts doubt on Obama's anecdote about his mother's health insurance woes

The Obama administration pushed harder for its strict deadline of January 2013 to certify state health insurance exchanges and proposed that each exchange - showing progress - receive conditional approval, in becoming fully operational by January 2014.

Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its share price.

The Sixth U.S. Court of Appeals in Cincinnati Wednesday ruled that the new U.S. health Care law's mandate that everyone purchase insurance is constitutional, handing the Obama administration a victory.

Google has announced that the company will be shutting down Google PowerMeter and Google Health.

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty took to his Twitter account, and later in an interview on Fox News, to fix the score on what many considered a missed opportunity to go after fellow presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, during the Republican primary debate earlier this week.

Illinois based computer hardware and software supplier, in a poll conducted last month, confirmed that nearly 28 percent of all US organizations are using cloud computing and another 73 percent reported that their first access to cloud was through a single cloud application

Seeking to contain ballooning costs, Republican governors are pressuring the Obama administration to relax federal requirements dictating how many poor and disabled people states must provide healthcare through Medicaid.

Afghanistan is the most dangerous country in the world for women, according to a survey of gender experts by TrustLaw, a legal news service run by The Thomson-Reuters Foundation

Lawyers for the Obama administration are in Atlanta fielding questions and defending the president's healthcare law to three federal judges who suggested they may be ready to declare all or part of the law unconstitutional, Reuters reported.

News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp said it plans to sell a unit that supplies healthcare data and analysis to companies, government agencies and health professionals.

About 800,000 elderly people in the United Kingdom who need social and health care are not receiving any support from either state or the private sector, according to a report from Age UK, a British registered charity.

The bull market that began in March 2009 may be over, warned a report from Standard & Poor’s.

A new study says the rise of rogue online pharmacies directly corresponds to the rise of prescription drug abuse.

Mitt Romney said he would respect each state's rights if elected President, defending the Massachusetts healthcare law he supported as governor while blasting the Obama Administration's power grab to require all states to adopt the health same policy, vowing to repeal the federal government's 2010 healthcare overhaul.

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