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The recent pushback on health care reform appears to have boosted the stock prices of health insurance companies, which have outperformed major indexes by quite a margin so far this year. That's because Americans have been cutting back on doctor visits, keeping reimbursement costs low.

Whistleblowing firm Ven-A-Care has recovered $2 billion for taxpayers by suing drug companies that overcharge the government and create windfalls for participating pharmacies. It also has made $380 million for itself. What's the problem with that?

Short wait times for doctor visits and 24/7 access to physicians are some of the perks available through concierge health care. But such perks cost more -- sometimes a lot more. And these plans could create a two-tier health care system.

The recession has been deep, but it hasn't stopped those who want to be their own bosses from switching careers to pursue that dream. In 2008, 626,400 employer businesses were started, according to the Small Business Administration. Another 552,600 employer start-ups joined their ranks in...

The state of Oregon is suing Johnson & Johnson for allegedly hiring people to buy Motrin pain reliever off the shelves so that the company would not have to issue a formal recall, nor tell consumers there was a problem. Eight months after the formal recall was issued, Oregon Attorney General...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is recalling packages of Rolaids medicines distributed in Canada after consumers complained of finding materials including particles of metal and wood in the products. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, said it is recalling all lots of Rolaids...

Medical imaging and diagnostics powerhouse GE Healthcare teams up with pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson to research methods of detecting Alzheimer's in patients -- even before they begin to exhibit symptoms of the devastating disease.

Just days after Johnson & Johnson's Children's Tylenol started returning to store shelves, the health care giant has recalled about four million packages of Children's Benadryl allergy tablets and some 800,000 bottles of Junior Strength Motrin, citing manufacturing problems.

A new study from Columbia University finds that the reasons America is lagging other countries aren't the commonly cited obesity, smoking, traffic fatalities and homicide. Rather, the problem has been poor health care, or rather, a poor health care system.

Global pharmaceutical sales are expected to grow by 5% to 7% in 2011, thanks to robust growth in emerging markets, especially China, as well as new innovative treatments, and despite patent expirations and budget pressures in the developed world.