Health care News

Organizing for Action, the successor to the Obama campaign’s Organizing for America, is set to launch a million-dollar ad campaign defending the Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court will soon decide on whether your genes can be patented in their consideration of the Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics case.

Omaha - Wendy's franchises in Omaha, Nebraska are making the move of cutting the work hours of employees to evade providing health benefits under the Affordable Care Act aka "Obamacare."

Buffalo - An upstate New York man said he purposely sought to get himself arrested so he could return to prison. He said he wanted to go back to jail in order to receive health care.

Ann Clwyd, a Labour MP and Chair of the Human Rights parliamentary group, accused the National Health Service (NHS) of inhumane treatment and fears the normalisation of cruelty is now rife.

Ottawa - A 96-year-old Ottawa woman is wrapped up in bureaucratic red tape after she lost her provincial healthcare card and is unable to get a new one because she has no photo identification, but has other pieces of ID to confirm her identity.

Jackson Ripley, 12-year-old boy from Colorado, was watching news coverage about health care and pre-existing conditions when he suddenly got up and started writing a letter to Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney told approximately 30 donors "people who support Obama do so because they are 'dependent on government'" and "believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing. My job is is not to worry about those people."

Health Canada is letting the public know that home-use HIV test kits being sold by CuraHerbDistributor are unlicensed. The brand has not been evaluated by Health Canada for safety and effectiveness.

There has been another outbreak of whooping cough and experts are worried this could lead to an epidemic. Health professionals are looking into ways of providing protection from the disease.