Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer.

Some analysts who have looked at health insurers’ proposed premiums for next year predict major increases for policies sold on state and federal health exchanges.

Anthem Inc. is nearing a deal to buy Cigna Corp. for more than $48 billion in a transaction that, alongside another recent proposed tie-up of rivals, would reduce the number of companies atop the U.S. health-insurance industry to three from five.

Sallyann Johnson considers herself a pretty savvy health care consumer. When she fell and injured her hands and wrists, she didn’t head for an expensive emergency room, choosing an urgent care clinic near her Milwaukee home instead.

Up to 4.5 million people may have had their medical information stolen in a recent cyberattack on the UCLA Health System.

Earlier this month a guy named Todd Fassler was bitten by a rattlesnake in San Diego, KGTV San Diego reports. In itself this isn't terribly unusual — the CDC estimates that roughly 7,000 to 8,000 people a year get bitten by a venomous snake in the United States.