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Seniors enrolled in seven of the 10 most popular Medicare prescription drug plans will be hit with double-digit premium hikes next year if they don't shop for a better deal, says a private firm that analyzes the highly competitive market.

Insurers do not have enough capacity to cover some $23 trillion in global pension liabilities against the risk that people will live longer than expected and should seek to pass such longevity risk through to investors, Swiss Re said.

Seeking to overcome opposition from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups to a cybersecurity bill, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D) of West Virginia took the unusual step of writing the CEOs of the 500 largest U.S. companies to request their views on cybersecurity and the legislation aimed at protecting the nation¿s critical infrastructure from computer attacks.

Global health officials are closely following a new respiratory virus related to SARS that is believed to have killed at least one person in Saudi Arabia and left another person in critical condition in Britain.

After a string of recent attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts, there are questions about security, and how to keep diplomatic staff safe in dangerous countries.

With a 520-mile-long coast lined largely by teeming roads and fragile infrastructure, New York City is gingerly facing up to the intertwined threats posed by rising seas and ever-more-severe storm flooding.

A handful of states are considering only partially expanding their Medicaid programs under the federal health-care overhaul -- a new twist on how states are interpreting the Supreme Court's ruling on the law.

From absenteeism due to illness to the cost of disability and workers' compensation, poor health costs the U.S. economy more than a half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new study by a nonprofit research organization.

An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo risks spreading to major towns if not brought under control soon after the death toll doubled within a week, the World Health Organization warned.

With estimates among catastrophe modeling firms ranging from $0.5 billion to $2 billion, losses from Hurricane Isaac are expected to be material but manageable for primary insurers located in the U.S. and the global reinsurance industry, according to Fitch Ratings in a new report.

Some recent visitors to Yosemite National Park have expressed concern that park employees allowed them to be potentially exposed to a deadly rodent-borne disease, even after workers knew previous visitors had contracted the disease.

Fifty cancers will be officially added to the list of sicknesses covered by a $4.3 billion fund set up to treat and compensate people exposed to the dust, smoke and fumes of the collapsing World Trade Center, the federal administrator of the World Trade Center Health Program.

The U.S. Department of Energy is slowing construction of a facility to process the country's largest accumulation of radioactive waste, amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute about the design and safety of the $12.2 billion project.

The Delaware River Port Authority on Wednesday continued to shift its insurance business away from two firms involved in a controversial commission-splitting deal. The move will save the DRPA about $500,000 a year, officials said.

Authorities in northern Illinois say two people are dead after a shooting at Kindred Hospital in Sycamore, highlighting the risks of violence toward health care workers.