Lisa Girion –

A new analysis of 2010 data from hospitals nationwide found that prescription painkillers, known as opioids, were involved in 68% of overdoses treated in emergency rooms. Hospital care for those overdose victims cost an estimated $1.4 billion.

Opioids prescribed by doctors led to 92,000 overdoses in ERs in one year

March 29, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

Prescription drug overdoses, a dangerous side effect of the nation's embrace of narcotic painkillers, are a "substantial" burden on hospitals and the economy, according to a new study of emergency...

Insurance options dwindle for many

August 21, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.

A major source of health insurance for people who work for themselves has all but disappeared, casting thousands of contractors, freelancers and solo practitioners into the ranks of the uninsured...

Health bill heads higher

August 21, 2021 at 7:27 a.m.

Health care will account for one in five dollars spent in the U.S. by 2015, and health savings accounts are not likely to be popular enough to help much in...

Reaction to Bush’s calls for stiffer laws mixed

August 22, 2019 at 5:14 p.m.

President Bush's corporate reform initiatives will do little to restore confidence in America's battered business culture, whether by shoring up investor trust or discouraging genuinely fraudulent behavior in the executive...

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