Insurers, hospitals and doctors say they are forming partnerships and creating programs to find ways to slow the growth in the nation’s $2.7 trillion health care bill.

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Hospitals and Insurers Join to Cut Health Care Costs

People using a certain type of adrenaline injector used to treat severe allergic reactions are being told to consult their doctors after a fault was found with the product.

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Alert over allergy injector fault

Creeping rationing of NHS care is making patients suffer unnecessarily, doctors are warning.

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Patients ‘suffer NHS rationing’

Why doctors should talk more about death

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Why we should talk more about death

The doctors for Aimee Copeland are promising a “roller coaster ride of highs and lows” in the coming weeks and months as she struggles against a rare “flesh-eating” bacteria, her father said.

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Woman with flesh-eating bug improves

Doctors are trained to be self-sufficient “cowboys,” but Atul Gawande says the best and cheapest results come from doctors who can work in teams

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Why we need a new kind of doctor

Doctors, nurses, and social workers billed $452M.

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107 Charged in Medicare Fraud

The last live recording of jazz legend Louis Armstrong, performing shortly before his death against the advice of his doctors, is made public.

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Final Armstrong record released

Doctors warn of new trend.

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Kids Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer

A consultation begins on whether doctors should be tested for their grasp of English and prevented from working for the NHS if they fail these tests.

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Consultation on doctors’ language

The sponsorship of the Olympics by fast-food firms “sends the wrong messge” say doctors who have united in a single campaign to tackle rising levels of obesity.

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Doctors unite to combat obesity

Can the MCAT identify that ethereal mix of scientist, humanist and spiritualist that makes a good doctor?

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Pre-Med’s New Priorities: Heart and Soul and Social Science

A premature baby who survived hours in a morgue refrigerator in Argentina was in “very serious” condition after doctors detected an infection, state media reported.

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‘Miracle’ baby in ‘very serious’ condition

A three-year-old boy has been kept alive with an artificial heart for more than eight months, which doctors say is a record for a child in the UK.

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Boy’s record on artificial heart

President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi has died, doctors and officials say, but the lack of a formal announcement causes widespread anxiety.

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Malawi President Mutharika ‘dead’