Health Care

The House has passed a bill to speed the introduction of self-driving cars by giving the federal government authority to exempt automakers from safety standards not applicable to the technology.

Both parties must give ground to craft a compromise bill shoring up the nation's individual insurance markets or they'll be blamed for hurting millions of consumers, the chairman of the Senate health committee said Wednesday.

The Latest on Congress and health care (all times local): 10:15 a.m.

Danish drug maker Novo Nordisk says it has reached a $46.5 million settlement with U.S. authorities over allegations that it hadn't properly communicated safety information when marketing a medicine to treat type 2 diabetes.

The Toyota Tacoma was the best performer among small pickups in insurance industry crash tests.

Novo Nordisk will pay nearly $58.7 million to resolve claims the drugmaker's sales staff downplayed the importance of a warning about cancer risks on the label of its diabetes medication Victoza, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday.

Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez will step down early next year and be replaced by fellow American Dr. Vasant Narasimhan, the Swiss pharmaceutical company said Monday.

Millions of people who buy individual health insurance policies and get no financial help from the Affordable Care Act are bracing for another year of double-digit premium increases, and their frustration is boiling over.

More than 6,000 infant rompers are being recalled because buttons can detach, posing a choking hazard to children.

Authorities say there won't be any criminal charges in the deadly thrill ride accident at this year's Ohio State Fair.

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 9:35 a.m.

In a letter sent to Congressional leadership on Thursday, a group of governors gave recommendations for stabilizing the health care market before insurance companies are forced to make critical decisions regarding 2018 marketplace participation next month.

Federal officials say a Massachusetts company is recalling more than 32,000 pounds of cooked chicken sausage product due to misbranding and undeclared allergens.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first treatment that genetically engineers patients' own blood cells to seek and destroy childhood leukemia.

Home Depot has agreed to pay the U.S. government $5.7 million to settle charges that it sold recalled washing machines, fire extinguishers and other faulty products.

Structural improvements over the last decade to Houston hospitals have helped them so far to avoid devastation like Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005, but the pounding it is receiving from Tropical Storm Harvey is expected to financially hobble many already strained Texas medical centers.

A Dutch court says that two directors of a poultry farm cleaning company at the center of a Europe-wide tainted food scare must remain in custody for a further 30 days while investigations into their alleged involvement in the scandal continue.