Torchmark Corporation (NYSE: TMK) announced today that it has redomesticated two of its leading insurance subsidiaries, United American Life Insurance Company, and Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company, from Delaware to Nebraska.

The state is one step closer to offering affordable health care coverage to uninsured residents who don't qualify for public assistance.

The problem of left-behind sponges is hardly new. A 2003 study in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that sponges and other foreign objects were left behind after abdominal surgeries at a rate of 1 for every 1,000 to 1,500 such operations.

State health officials are hoping to team with Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot this spring for a statewide effort to identify more children who are eligible for federally funded health insurance.

Based on the studies, the Food and Drug Administration may further restrict the use of the drugs, which already carry the agency's strictest "black box" warning.

A mysterious die-off of hundreds of crows throughout New York state has been linked to the avian reovirus, a pathogen that has threatened the poultry industry in the past, relentlessly sweeping through flocks, state wildlife officials said Thursday.

On Thursday, state officials put on a live demonstration of that health hazard to promote a new law that bans smoking in cars carrying minors.

One or more unlikely things must happen before Gov. Steve Beshear can honor his campaign pledge to extend health insurance to tens of thousands of Kentuckians.

Older Pennsylvanians who need fast and accurate information about insurance will now be able to find it with a click of their mouse.

The American Medical Association is touring New Hampshire, as the presidential primary draws nearer, to promote a three-point plan for health-care reform that includes tax-funded coverage for the uninsured.

Continuing its role as a leading supporter and advocate of preferred provider organizations, the American Association of Preferred Provider Organizations (AAPPO) today announced a strategic alliance with Health Care Administrators Association (HCAA) that will significantly enhance benefits for members of both associations.

Assurant Health, a Milwaukee, WI-based national provider of individual medical, small group and specialty health insurance products, announced today it entered into an agreement that gives its customers access to Great-West Healthcare's national network of hospitals and physicians.

AvMed Health Plans has received an Excellent Accreditation status from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for both its commercial and Medicare products.

Oklahomans should hang up if a caller insists they must supply bank account information to maintain their SoonerCare health coverage, authorities warned Wednesday.

Urinary catheter infections account for 40% of all hospital infections, but U.S. hospitals do not have strategies in place to minimize them, according to a University of Michigan study to be released today.

The collision of a statewide campaign to cut property taxes with Florida's worst budget crunch in decades could give hospitals that treat the poor and uninsured a double dose of trouble next fiscal year.

"Yes, it's an insurance company, but it has a community mission," Burrell said in a recent interview. "We want to be catalytic for productive changes in the health system."

An influx of doctors will increase costs on an already financially troubled Medicare system, researchers at Dartmouth Medical School contend.

A key element is a requirement that all residents obtain health insurance -- similar to auto insurance -- or ultimately lose their personal tax exemptions. That escalating penalty kicks in at the end of the month.

Farmers and ranchers are paying some of the highest health insurance premiums available.

At the same time many state agencies are working to weed out undocumented immigrants, Women's Hospital has found ways to reach -- and embrace -- a growing segment of North Carolina's population.

SurgiCount and its distribution partner, Cardinal Health Inc. (NYSE:CAH) , are rolling out a bar-coding system that helps operating-room nurses and technicians keep track of sponges and other items.