Organisation: Medicare

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

business

US stocks end worst week since 2012

US investors avoided another rollercoaster day on Wall Street. What they got instead was a steady, moderate decline that left the market with its worst weekly performance since May 2012.

world

Obama edges out Romney in fundraising

news

‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ chance to collect cells

world

Obama: Health care costs divide 'unacceptable'

world

Study: Colonoscopy alternative effective but far from perfect

news

Irish parents ‘left behind’ by failing to store umbilical cord stem cells

Row over cancer screening accuracy rate

A FIERCE row has broken out over claims that the US medical firm contracted for the national cervical cancer screening programme has a poor accuracy rate compared with its Irish rivals.

Fri, 16 May, 2008

Pelosi: Democrats ready to lead

Set to become the US' first female speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi says Democrats are "ready to lead" in partnership with Republicans, "not in partisanship".

Wed, 08 Nov, 2006

Half-ton man winning diet battle

A man who once weighed half a ton is shedding the pounds on a life-saving diet at a South Dakota hospital.

Tue, 21 Sep, 2004