A growing number of U.S. doctors are enacting their own brand of health reform, with some dumping insurance companies altogether and others forcing patients to pay thousands of dollars in cash to keep the care theyre accustomed to. Msnbc.com's JoNel Aleccia reports.

We visit a health clinic with two doors, one for patients using insurance and the other for those with cash. This two-tiered system could be coming to a street corner near you. Msnbc.com's Bill Dedman reports.

Opinion: One sure sign that something is very broken in Americas health care system is the rise of so-called boutique or concierge medical practices, where doctors charge patients an extra fee to be seen, writes bioethicist Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.

A mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed.

Preschoolers in home-based day cares are sitting as many as two hours a day in front of a TV, according to a study published Monday.

A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the "system is broken."

The Senate bill includes an accounting mechanism that cuts the projected deficits by $72 billion. Msnbc.com fact-checks this claim and more.

At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.

The urge to scarf is more than a hunger cue gone wild. It's a window into your nutritional needs and your personality.

The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak across much of the globe, health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over.