Health Care

With a self-imposed July 4 deadline, the senate is under the gun to get a health reform bill written quickly, but Democrats are plotting ways to slow down the senate action to protest what they say is a closed door process.

Iowa's last health care insurer to sell policies to individuals statewide through the federal Affordable Care Act said Monday it needs to know more about how the state's insurance market will function next year before making a final promise to stay.

Global diabetes has increased by 40% over the last two years, according to a new report released Monday.

The Supreme Court says hundreds of out-state-residents can't sue drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in California state court over adverse reactions to the blood thinner Plavix.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday Democrats have become increasingly confrontational over the past couple of decades.

California on Monday will announce plans to award $20 million in emergency grants to local health and Planned Parenthood clinics in anticipation of possible U.S. healthcare funding cuts, according to State Treasurer John Chiang's office.

___ Experts: Uber must make changes at top to fix culture woes DETROIT (AP) — Uber must get rid of leaders who tolerate bad behavior and hire people who don't — including up to the chief executive — experts say, as the ride-hailing company gets ready to announce significant changes to its culture and management.

The Latest on a settlement with Genesis HealthCare to resolve allegations that the company and its subsidiaries filed false claims with the U.S. government (all times local): 1 p.m. Genesis HealthCare says it is pleased to resolve allegations that the company and its subsidiaries had submitted false claims for unnecessary therapy and nursing care.

Federal prosecutors say Genesis Healthcare has agreed to pay $53.6 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims for unnecessary therapy and nursing care.

A line of children's robes are being recalled because they fail to meet flammability standards.

Nevada now has the nation's strictest rules requiring pharmaceutical companies to reveal how they set certain prescription drug prices.

U.S. regulators have approved new competition for EpiPen, the emergency allergy medicine that made Mylan a poster child for pharmaceutical greed.

Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, and officials are trying to put rules in place to start selling it on July 1.

A JPMorgan Chase employee has teamed up with The American Civil Liberties Union to file a discrimination charge against the bank Thursday claiming the company has discriminated against him and other dads by denying them the same paid parental leave as mothers.

Four major pharmaceutical companies are in a race to be the first to offer a drug they say may rapidly reduce—and even prevent—migraines to the more than 38 million Americans affected by the debilitating illness each year.