The Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) demonstration program proved to be a great success for the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services. Medicare already has recouped nearly $1 billion from providers in the five states where the program was launched in 2005. And with tough times hitting everyone -including CMS - the government health care ...

Chinese health officials are celebrating the New Year with an anti-smoking campaign to end the tradition of giving cigarettes as gifts. The campaign from the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention stresses that giving such gifts is like ''sending wishes of lung cancer and other respiratory diseases to your friends.''The country grows ...

''I will exercise every day'' ... ''I will commit an act of kindness every week.'' ... ''I will quit smoking.'' When the clock strikes midnight on the last day of the year, people make resolutions for a better life. But how many people keep them? Only about 15 percent, according to statistic circulated widely on the web-and that includes many ...

Bill Gates and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg have pledged $500 million for a global anti-smoking campaign.The campaign, nicknamed Mpower, will urge governments in poor- and middle-income countries to raise tobacco taxes, outlaw smoking in public places, outlaw advertising to children, ban free giveaways of cigarettes, implement ...