Aetna, CVS Launch Medicare Prescription Drug Plan

Health insurer Aetna and CVS/pharmacy announced Wednesday that they are launching a new co-branded Medicare prescription drug plan.

Denmark's New 'Fat Tax': Butter, Whipped Cream are Targets

A new tax based on fat content in food took effect in Denmark over the weekend in an effort to increase the healthiness of people’s diets.

Policy

U.S. Preventable Deaths Highest for 16 High-Income Nations

U.K.-based authors looking at “amenable mortality” across 16 high-income nations, as one measure of health system performance, found the U.S. rate of deaths which could have been prevented by health care was almost double that of France, which had the lowest levels.

Kidney Disease

Can Dr. Oz Apple Juice Study on Arsenic be Used to Determine Safety?

Popular talk show host, Dr Mehmet Oz, has aired a segment on the chemical arsenic found in apple juice, noting that federal regulators currently do not have a limit on arsenic in apple juice.