The provincial Department of Health in KwaZulu-Natal has offered bursaries to students from poor backgrounds, who want to take up their studies in the health field.

Barack Obama's economic policy director joined the campaign just after touting a health care reform idea embraced by John McCain and rejected by Obama.

In an effort to show they are part of the health-care crisis solution, not the problem, a contingent of medical insurance executives spent Wednesday in Salt Lake talking with a contingent of small business executives and state lawmakers.

The health insurance industry is entering the campaign debate over how to make health care more affordable while retaining a large role for the private sector.

Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, and children will suffer the most, according to a new White House science report released Thursday.