Bangalore-based NBFC-MFI, Grameen Koota Financial Services Pvt Ltd (Grameen Koota) has reached a new milestone of a million microfinance customers, which is a testimony to its strong client-centric approach aimed at providing holistic financial and social services. Grameen Koota, with 3,000 employees working in 270 branches spread across Karnataka, Maharashtra,...

Monica Leyva and Lisa Vandervort are contributing in different ways to City Heights Wellness Center (CHWC), a joint project of Scripps Mercy Hospital and Rady Children’s Hospital. And they are doing so in what ranks as one of the most diverse communities in San Diego County and the nation. It’s...

WASHINGTON: Cellphone use has the potential to improve the health of low-income, urban women at risk for diabetes and other diseases during their childbearing years, a new study has found. In a survey of a diverse group of almost 250 young, low-income, inner-city pregnant and postpartum women in the US,...

Undocumented immigrants provided a surplus of $35.1 billion to the Medicare Trust Fund between 2000 and 2011, according to a new Journal of General Internal Medicine study recently published. The findings challenge concerns that undocumented immigrants are financially burdening the health care system. According to the study, undocumented immigrants contributed...

As many as 7.5 million U.S. taxpayers reported that they owed a tax penalty for 2014 for not signing up for health insurance, the Internal Revenue Service said. That amounted to roughly $1.5 billion in penalties. That was at least 1.5 million more taxpayers than the Obama administration expected to...