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Plan B, the so-called "morning after pill," won't be made available over the counter, announced U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Wednesday.

Insurance Finder, a tool on Healthcare.gov, allows businesses to comparison shop for health insurance. The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to save small businesses time and hopefully, money. It's launched a new tool at Healthcare.gov to help find and compare health insurance plans

Premiums will rise by $3.50 at most, said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Without effective public health insurance exchanges, we will miss the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a solution to the problem of providing affordable health care coverage to all Americans. Here, the President and CEO of Extend Health on how it can be done. The government's Affordable Care Act aims to make health insurance more accessible and affordable to millions of individual Americans and employees of small businesses

Chris Wragge talks to Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, about the new graphic picture warnings for cigarette packs

Nursing homes are unnecessarily administering powerful antipsychotic drugs to many elderly residents, including residents with dementia [1] , according to a new report by the Health and Human Services inspector general. The Food and Drug Administration in 2005 mandated that drug makers issue warning labels [2] on atypical antipsychotics, noting that the drugs--which are generally FDA-approved for treating schizophrenia and bipolar disorder--increase the risk of death for elderly patients with dementia. Yet when the government examined 1.4 million Medicare claims from 2007 for atypical antipsychotics for elderly nursing home residents, the government found that 88 percent of the time, the drugs were prescribed to individuals diagnosed with dementia