AURORA, Colo.----Metro Community Provider Network today opened the doors of its new North Aurora Family Health Service facility located at 33rd and Peoria just north of the Anschutz Medical Campus and began providing services to patients.

NHS trusts should fund more free health checks and stomach stapling surgery to combat diabetes, according to a report. Screening for the over 40s alone could save 2,500 lives a year across the UK, according to the University of London's School of Pharmac

Shares of health care providers and service companies rose Monday, with health insurers and pharmacy benefits managers among the stocks trading higher.

LAPORTE | Scholarships and awards totaling more than $93,000 were presented to local students on June 17 during the 2008 LaPorte Regional Health System Scholarship Awards Program at LaPorte Hospital. LaPorte Regional Health System (LRHS), LaPorte Hospital

In past economic downturns, investors looking for cover from falling share prices could always run to health-care stocks. This year, though, that classic safe haven appears worse than the storm.