HEALTHCARE

MenAfriVac could be the beginning of the end of meningitis in Africa, and it costs about $0.50.

Africa isn't known for scientific breakthroughs, but a new university could change that.

The U.S. economy continues to chug along at a rate that, while modest, seems to be adequate to help support reasonably good corporate earnings.

Obama has announced a plan to rebuild the economy. Republicans have their own ideas. Neither is going to happen, and here's why.

The administration has postponed the Obamacare deadline for employers to insure all full-time workers until 2015.

Protesters in Brazil have been accusing their government of using social funds to pay for the World Cup. Who is the event really benefiting?

Republicans say the IRS scandal is more reason to fear the agency's implementation of Obamacare. They may have a winner. Or not.

At the beginning of 2013, Californians couldn’t stop singing Gov. Jerry Brown’s praises. But now he seems headed for a crash on the rocks.

Here’s a list of 72 companies set to report earnings April 29-May 3.

CaroMont Regional Medical Center is launching a "Cheat Death" health initiative, but it has drawn some criticism for the morbid marketing.

A key test for “Big Data”? Opera Solutions’ new fraud detection system for health insurance exchanges established under Obamacare.

The 113th Congress convened Thursday to face old problems. Here are some of the thorniest issues on the table.

One-third of NHS’ 1.2 million-strong workforce originated in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

The only real difference? Dental coverage.

Africa is an unlikely pioneer in the growing field of mobile applications for health care. There's only one problem: How to make money with them

Thalia Paraskeva, 24, was getting increasingly desperate. Equipped with a degree in graphic design from Athens, she had no luck finding a job in Greece. One day, she booked a ticket to Berlin and swiftly packed some dresses, a jacket, a pair of snug boots and a Greek-German dictionary before boarding the plane.

Many small businesses have been paying nearly twice the amount for half the health care benefits that they are entitled to provide their employees. However, under the new health care mandate, health insurance will be more affordable for small companies.

The Fragrant Harbor was passed from British to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. Today, it's still torn between its Western-style freedoms and the Beijing model.

The Supreme Court has spoken, the president has spoken, and Congress has spoken. Now it is time for the American people to speak.

The Court current consists of nine justices, six men and three women. By racial background, seven are white, one is black and one is Latino.

Declaring that the highest court in the land has now spoken, President Barack Obama vowed to press ahead with implementing the sweeping health care reform law whose constitutionality the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed on Thursday.