Health Care

U.S. regulators have approved a modernized version of a decades-old antibiotic used to treat a number of infections.

___ GE, seeking path forward as a century-old company, ousts CEO BOSTON (AP) — General Electric CEO and Chairman John Flannery is being ousted after just over a year on the job at the century-old company.

American dairy farmers get more access to the Canadian market.

Medicare is modernizing its website to make it more useful for beneficiaries, particularly younger ones accustomed going online for information from insurers, hospitals and doctors.

Two major not-for-profit health care providers in Texas plan to merge with a goal of improved patient care and more cost-effective services.

The drugmaker Pfizer will replace CEO Ian Read with Chief Operating Officer Albert Bourla in January.

President Donald Trump isn't playing it straight when it comes to his campaign pledge not to undercut health coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions.

California has become the first state to require publicly traded companies to include women on their boards of directors, according to a law signed Sunday by Gov. Jerry Brown.

Corporate America is jumping deeper into the care its workers receive beyond just giving them insurance cards and a list of doctors they can visit.

Autoworkers in this blue-collar, central Indiana city have an eager helper waiting to pick up the bill at their next doctor visit.

The world beyond a memorable Senate hearing marched on this past week.

The president for the nasal spray says it wants to increase awareness of its life-saving potential.

Aetna is selling its Medicare prescription drug business, potentially clearing the way for CVS Health to complete its $69 billion takeover of the insurer.

A federal judge in New Orleans has thrown out the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's rules for fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the agency lacked authority to make them.

More than 1 million UnitedHealthcare customers could be affected.

Shares continue to surge two days after Amarin touted its study showed dramatic results for heart patients in trial.

Novartis said Tuesday it's cutting some 2,100 jobs in Switzerland and Britain over several years as the Swiss pharmaceuticals giant tweaks its corporate structure to become more nimble and more efficient.

President Donald Trump made reducing drug prices a key promise during his election campaign, repeatedly accusing drugmakers of "getting away with murder."