Paul D. Jacobs ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. There is widespread agreement that taxpayers pay more when Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in ...

If you smoke, start thinking of yourself as a decade older than you really are. A 55-year-old man who smokes has almost the same chance of dying in the next 10 years as a 65-year-old who's never ...

You may have heard people say that investing involves a tradeoff between risk vs. return. And that’s typically true. Investors usually need to take on greater risk to achieve higher returns. But what ...