Health Care

Connecticut officials voiced surprise on Monday at the extent of abuse that took place at the state's only maximum-security psychiatric hospital, telling lawmakers they're working to understand how it happened without the knowledge of higher-ups.

The Latest on a public hearing about abuse at Connecticut's maximum-security hospital (all times local): 3:35 p.m.

Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease.

President Donald Trump announced his decision on Twitter Monday morning to nominate Alex Azar as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary.

U.S. stocks are falling Friday as health care companies skid.

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:40 a.m.

Quilted jackets for babies are being recalled this week because of snaps that can detach and pose a choking hazard.

Federal inspectors have repeatedly ordered a southeast Iowa fur farm to improve the living conditions for ferrets, foxes, raccoons and skunks it sells to government laboratories and pet stores.

Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP is exploring a sale or initial public offering of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, a U.S. diagnostics company that could be valued at more than $7 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said.

U.S. regulators have approved the first drug to prevent life-threatening infections in adults after a bone marrow transplant.

Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca says its net income and sales fell in the third quarter as it worked to make up for the loss of patent protection for major products such as Crestor and Seroquel XR.

Arkansas has identified a New York pharmaceutical company as the maker of one of its lethal injection drugs, and the company says it doesn't want any of its products used in executions.

IRS commissioner John Koskinen’s last day on the job is Thursday, but he appears to have decided to bestow one final gift on the business community on his way out.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst, discusses the referendum in Maine expanding Medicaid to low-income adults.

The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that repealing the individual mandate under Obamacare would reduce the federal budget deficit by $338 billion over the next decade.

Humana Inc. (HUM) on Wednesday reported third-quarter net income of $499 million.

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. is seeing fiscal second-quarter profit slip 3 percent despite growing sales because of costs related to improper vehicle checks in Japan and a massive global air-bag recall in the U.S. Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, reported Wednesday a July-September profit of 141.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion), down from 146.1 billion yen the same period last year.

The Latest on Republican tax overhaul legislation (all times local): 11:35 a.m.

Florida's state-run pension plan is going to sue a pharmaceutical company over millions in losses that top officials contend were due to fraud.