A report due to be released on Tuesday is likely to change the way New Yorkers receive health care and result in job cuts.

A commission brought together by state legislators will make public a report on downsizing the hospital and nursing home industries across New York State. The recommendations are due to become law if the governor or the Legislature does not scrap the plan in December

The Commonwealth Fund Commission ranked the U.S. health care system poorly on its first national scoring system in comparison with other countries, according to an AP report.

The low grades received from the private foundation health care research group ranked the U.S. with a score of 66 out of a total 100

Scientists are conducting a research trial in mid-Wales to determine whether a flower-derived compound used to treat Alzheimer's disease can be farmed there. The compound, galantamine, comes from daffodils and has been found to slow down the progression of the disease.

Galantamine has been found in plants in the wild. The researchers say that if it can be farmed it could be massively helpful to those afflicted with the illness

With an aging Baby-Boomer population concerns over the quality of care in nursing homes that are secretive about problems will increase.

U.S. Census Bureau estimates place the percentage of adults over 65 at 35 percent of the population by 2020

Some drugs used to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease do little to calm some of the malady's more dramatic symptoms, and may even pose a risk of serious side effects, according to a study due out, today.

The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, finds that some popular medications prescribed to ease agitation and aggression were no more effective than placebos for most Alzheimer's patients. The study goes on to say that the drugs may actually lead to confusion, sleepiness and Parkinson's disease-like symptoms in some patients