We’ve all heard those pitches for prearranged funerals: Make arrangements now so your loved ones don’t have all that stress in a “time of need.”That might be a good idea, but how’s this for stress: You lay out thousands of…

You drop your car off for routine service. The mechanic has bad news. He needs to replace a part you’ve never heard of. It’s going to be expensive, he says.
Is this for real, you ask yourself, or is he…

Having health insurance used to mean that if you got sick, you’d get all the medical care you needed. Not any more.
A new survey from the nonpartisan Center for Studying Health System Change found significant increases in the number of…

The birth of a new iceberg — usually when a huge chunk falls off a glacier or ice floe, a process known as “calving”– is said to be an awe-inspiring thing. The birth of a new verb is most often…

If it were put to a simple up-or-down vote today, Missouri lawmakers probably would agree to extend health insurance coverage to about 55,000 working parents who are struggling to raise their children.
But that’s not going to happen. Extending health insurance…

No, it’s not a cure for cancer. But a California drug company has won federal approval to market a medicine that treats another major medical problem affecting millions of Americans: Oral anesthetic hangover.

That’s the drooling, slurred speech and inability to…