Health Care

Hundreds of individuals were charged with health care fraud, including more than 100 doctors and health care professionals, for their role in stealing $1.3 billion from taxpayers, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

The Food and Drug Administration has entered a new era in medicine after an FDA advisory panel endorsed a leukemia treatment that could be the first gene-altering therapy available in the U.S. The panel of cancer experts voted 10-0 Wednesday, recommending that the treatment be approved.

Senator Rand Paul said Thursday is his still opposed to the Senate health care bill, telling FOX Business the GOP bill doesn’t repeal Obamacare and has created a “giant new insurance bailout.”

Cancer experts who advise government regulators are reviewing what could be the first gene therapy approved in the U.S. The Food and Drug Administration panel is holding a hearing Wednesday to discuss the treatment developed by the University of Pennsylvania and Novartis Corp.

More than 1,200 nurses at a Boston hospital have started a one-day strike after last-minute negotiations between their union and hospital administrators were unsuccessful.

The Latest on a Food and Drug Administration panel's review of a gene therapy treatment (all times local): 3:30 p.m.

Novartis AG recently discovered that a drug it sells for a group of very rare diseases could be used to treat a much more common ailment. There is just one problem: its $16,000-per-dose price tag.

A company that sells Primewell brand tires is recalling more than 394,000 of them in the U.S. because the sidewalls can crack and lose air, increasing the risk of a crash.

An 81-year-old man from Hialeah, Florida, near Miami is the 12th person known to have died in the U.S. due to malfunctioning Takata air bag inflators.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday Congress will postpone its August recess in order to make progress on its major legislative goals.

Takata is adding 2.7 million vehicles from Ford, Nissan and Mazda to the long list of those recalled to replace potentially dangerous air bag inflators.

'In Trump we Trust’ author Ann Coulter is urging Republicans to pass the one-sentence bill in the Senate to reform health care.

As Democrats continue to delay and obstruct the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees, the GOP is bolstering its own strategy.

The parents of Charlie Gard, an 11-month old terminally ill baby in Britain, want to take their child to America to get treatment for a rare disease which has caused brain damage. But socialized medicine in Britain put the government in charge of the child’s life.

A new patch has been developed that could potentially replace the dreaded annual flu shots.

Another person has been killed in the U.S. by an exploding Takata air bag inflator, but this death wasn't the result of a crash.

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