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In a sign of the economy’s toll on the health care system, some hospitals are seeing fewer paying patients — even as more people show up at emergency rooms unable to pay their bills.

Businesspeople wonder how a perilous financial climate will affect their physical fitness — and if exercise could help them weather hard times.

The urge to punish is more than Wall Street loathing: it’s based in instincts that have had a protective effect on communities throughout human history.

Most people are worried about the health of the economy. But does the economy also affect your health?

The number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million, to 45.7 million.

Congress has blocked a cut in payments to doctors but has not solved the problem that caused the cut, experts say.

A new study has found that about 80 percent of the world?s deaths from high blood pressure occur in poor and middle-income countries.

Millions of New Yorkers are having trouble finding fresh and affordable food within walking distance of their homes, according to a recent city study.

For millions of people with employer health insurance, premiums and co-payments have increased quickly while coverage has become less extensive.

Health researchers projected that each percentage-point rise in unemployment would swell the uninsured by 1.1 million, stoking demand for government health coverage.