Breast Cancer Gene: Why Most Women Can't Do What Jolie Did
When it comes to breast cancer, your health care can be trumped by your finances: Even if your best bet is to follow in Angelia Jolie's footsteps, you may not be able to.
When it comes to breast cancer, your health care can be trumped by your finances: Even if your best bet is to follow in Angelia Jolie's footsteps, you may not be able to.
For millions of Americans, Medicare is a major key to a secure retirement, but over the years, it's gotten increasingly complex. Here's the simple version of how it all works.
Since the recession hit, medical inflation has been roughly 3%, far less than the 7.4% long-term average from 1980 through 2008. Could this mean lower costs into the future?
Looking for allergy relief? Prescriptions, rather than OTC remedies, are often more effective and cheaper in the long run.
Now that tax season is over, it's natural to wonder exactly where the hard-earned dollars you paid in income tax over the past year actually went.
Rejecting Medicaid expansion could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to the new federal health care law.
Most U.S. seniors will need long-term medical care, and millions bought long-term-care insurance to pay for it. Now, massive rate hikes may price them out of their policies.
For retirees hoping to live long and prosper in their golden years, the U.S. is only the 19th best place to be, according to a new index.
Some health care providers are offering credit cards designed to cover uninsured costs, but these cards come with a host of potential problems.
Arijit Guha, whose battle with an insurance company gave a human face to the health care struggle, died last week.
How much does it cost to live longer? Life expectancy has risen for most Americans, but recent studies show that the big winners are the rich.
Many Americans are still failing to sock away enough money to pay for retirement -- or emergencies for that matter, according to a survey. Only half of respondents reported good savings habits, including having a spending and/or saving plan in place.
Some families could get priced out of health insurance due to what's being called a glitch in President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul law.
Year-end tax planning is trickier this time around: Unless Congress compromises, all the Bush tax cuts will expire when 2013 arrives, and many popular tax breaks that expired at the end of 2011 may not get revived. Here's how you can lower what you owe the IRS, regardless of what happens in Washington next month.
A successful, prosperous retirement is a common goal for most of us, but it's remarkably easy to wreck your golden years if you're not being careful. Here are three steps you could be taking right now to ruin your retirement.














