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Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is under fire for a proposal that would prohibit non-essential surgeries on people who are overweight or who smoke. Patients must quit smoking for eight weeks or lose weight to qualify for non-emergency surgery at ...

Hospitals, clinics and ambulance services across the United Kingdom were disrupted by one the largest ransomware attacks in history Friday. At least 16 hospitals operated by the National Health Service (NHS) in England were affected by the attack, which impacted ...

  Cybercriminals have discovered how to hack into the computers of America’s hospitals and even hold entire medical centers for ransom, locking doctors and nurses out of systems and also obtaining private medical records. In one stunning example, the staff ...

A Connecticut teenager was taken from her family and placed in a psychiatric ward and a residential care home because of a dispute over medical care, and her father is now speaking out. Linda and Lou Pelletier claim they lost ...

Many of the policies being offered through the Obamacare health insurance exchanges are super cheap because they offer a very limited number of healthcare providers. Major insurance companies deliberately created what Consumer Reports called “junk health insurance policies” to sell ...

Most emergencies aren’t predictable or preventable with any realistic consistency; things like choking, allergies, fire, snake bites, and bee stings are a fact of life and oftentimes difficult to avoid. For someone who lives the off-the-grid lifestyle, self-reliance has become ...

Politicians have spent the last few weeks patting each other on the back, making self-aggrandizing speeches and generally acting like they have just finished writing the Constitution. The passing of Obama’s health care reform bill is being hailed as the ...