With health data breaches reaching epidemic proportions, healthcare organizations are resigning themselves to the fact that losing sensitive data to hackers is inevitable.

A woman suffered second-degree burns to her legs and multiple broken bones after her electronic cigarette exploded.

It’s indisputable that society has recognized the overuse, misuse, and abuse of opioids since Big Opioid Pharma convinced prescribers, pharmacists, and medical schools that they would solve the pain problem.

Police in a California county have a warning for camera-toting thrill seekers: "You can lose your life and none of that is worth a selfie!" The message was posted on the Placer County Sheriff's Office Facebook page after a woman fell 60 feet off the Foresthill Bridge on Tuesday.

Nine defendants were sentenced in federal court for participating in a massive insurance fraud scheme. The fraud involved material misrepresentations to health insurance providers and illegal payments to coconspirators and medical professionals, including physicians.

Congress appears to be taking steps to block health insurers from pooling loss data - and the industry fears this could open a Pandora’s Box that would lead to a broader removal of the privilege for all insurers in the future.

Every eight minutes in the U.S., a child under three has an accident related to baby products like strollers, carriers, cribs and walkers, a study suggests. That adds up to more than 66,000 injuries a year on average, and it only counts infants and toddlers who visit the emergency room.

A man suspected of starting an apartment fire that killed five and injured four Wednesday on Detroit’s east side was arrested, authorities said. The fire, reported at about 1:30 p.m. on the 10500 block of Whittier, ripped through the building as high winds fanned the flames.

Sanford Heisler, LLP has filed a $50 million amended complaint in the US District Court on behalf of claims specialists Debra Julian and Stephanie McKinney, against MetLife, Inc., the nation’s largest insurance company, and two of its subsidiaries, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and MetLife Insurance Company USA.

Republican legislative leaders in Indiana are warning that repealing the Affordable Care Act could unravel a program for poor residents that Vice President Mike Pence implemented as governor, a conservative blueprint for expanding Medicaid under the federal law.

With interest rates still low and the market for variable annuities slumping fast it’s hard to be cheerful about the immediate future of annuities — except when it comes to structured VAs.

United Technologies Corp’s (UTX.N) Carrier unit expanded a recall of some air conditioners and heat pumps as their power cord plugs can overheat, posing a fire risk, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.

Your greatest SodaStream fears have been realized: tens of thousands of SodaStream’s plastic bottles may not be able to withstand quite as much pressure as the company thought, causing the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a recall because they pose an injury risk to carbonation-happy consumers.

A few days after Pennsylvania’s opioid prescription law limiting emergency room prescriptions to seven days with no refills went into effect on Jan. 1, lawmakers in neighboring New Jersey began introducing their own form of prescriber limits — five days for new prescriptions, according to a matching set of bills set before the state’s Senate and Assembly.

Cheese is delicious. Salad with cheese is also delicious. But Listeria is not. For that reason, Sargento has recalled seven prepackaged cheese products and Taylor Farms has recalled 6,630 pounds of pork and chicken salad products that use the affected cheese.