The monthly Medicare premium for senior citizens has gone up, once again.

Senior citizens and the disabled will now pay a monthly premium of $88.50 for doctor's visits and other services, starting January, 2006

Chestatee Emergency Medical Care is filled with patients signed on to a program charging clients a flat annual rate of $500 for unlimited visits.

Dr. Gary Berliner's patients can visit as often as they like without an appointment for checkups, X-rays, lab tests, even minor surgery

Vice President Dick Cheney will have surgery next weekend to treat an aneurysm in an artery behind his right knee.

The condition, discovered earlier this year during a routine checkup, needs to be treated "as to not become a problem over time," Steve Schmidt, counselor to the vice president, says

Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

Worthington Industries Inc. - one of the rare businesses that pays the full cost of employee health insurance - limited its generosity last year, saying workers have to take responsibility for their health if they want to continue getting free insurance

According to a group of London-based fertility specialists the increase in women over 35 having children is cause for some alarm.

They say the best age for pregnancy remains 20 to 35