Life & Health

With sedentary screen time contributing to childhood obesity, why not use digital technology. to empower health in the young?

Medical records have made their way online, opening them to security leaks -- and can be 50 times more lucrative than financial data for thieves.

Wellness programs focus on physical health but also must confront eating disorders.

One hospital provides a sterling example of competing on healthcare metrics for quality, not on billboards showing smiling nurses.

It isn't just diseases that cause epidemics. There can be an epidemic of diagnosis, too -- screening can do more harm than good.

Current treatment guidelines protect patients from infectious diseases -- but not healthcare workers like those who recently contracted Ebola.

Even before Obamacare, insurers had perverse incentives to attract the healthy and avoid the sick -- and the problem is growing.

A call to action in 2009 published "arresting facts" that are certainly arresting but aren't facts -- yet have become the basis for wellness plans.