Health Care

The Latest on ConAgra's plead deal to settle a criminal case stemming from a 2006 salmonella outbreak (all times local): 1:30 p.m.

A key Republican lawmaker wants to overhaul the nation's Social Security program, proposing to gradually increase the retirement age and slow the growth of benefits for higher-income workers.

A French association of people affected by a drug that caused birth defects has launched a class action against pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

In the global fight to eradicate HIV/AIDS, one fundraising organization is harnessing the Cloud.

Flexion Therapeutics, Kite Pharma, and Agios Pharma all have drugs that could make their way to the FDA in the coming months.

A former Bayer executive is ditching the corporate world of genetically modified organisms to find new alternatives to produce crops naturally using bumble bees as control agents.

A fight over coal miners' health-care benefits threatened to delay passage of a short-term spending bill in the Senate beyond Friday, when the government's current funding is set to expire.

Hyundai is recalling more than 41,000 older minivans because the hoods can fly open while they're being driven.

Life expectancy has taken a dip for the first time since the early 1990’s as heart disease drives up the U.S. mortality rate.

Smoking has hit new lows forcing tobacco giant Philip Morris to think of new "healthier" alternatives.

Playworld Systems Inc. is recalling 1,300 slides that are used in school and municipal playgrounds after a defect caused two finger amputations in children.

Repealing President Barack Obama's health care law without a replacement risks making nearly 30 million people uninsured, according to a study released Wednesday.

Generic drugmaker Mylan said on Wednesday it may cut less than 10 percent of its global workforce as part of a restructuring program.

The Chinese unit of medical device maker Medtronic has been fined $17 million by anti-monopoly regulators in the latest effort by Beijing to force down what it sees as unreasonably high prices.

Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells says that half of the burrito chain's more than 2,100 restaurants have less-than-excellent customer service and that the company is now training employees to clean dirty napkins off tables, make sure the soda fountain is organized and keep the glass on its front doors free of fingerprints.

Repealing Obamacare will be the first order of business in the U.S. Senate in January, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, said on Tuesday.

The penalties for late enrollment could follow you around for as long as you're enrolled in Medicare.