PROVIDENCE — The governor’s plan to impose higher health-insurance rates on thousands of unionized state employees who rejected a recent contract proposal is on hold until at least mid-month, while a Superior Court judge decides whether Carcieri’s a

Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell visited Norwalk 10 days ago to tout her new Charter Oak Health Plan aimed at providing affordable health care to uninsured state residents, regardless of income.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Monday at a health care symposium sponsored by Siemens said that the Bush administration and Congress should do more to implement electronic health records nationwide, the Baltimore Sun reports.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (WLFI) - The Indiana State Health Department is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and health departments in many other states to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella poisoning.   Indiana has one c

BOSTON -- The federal government has granted Massachusetts a fifth extension in negotiations aimed at continuing the state's new universal health care law.