Health Care

Vice President-elect Mike Pence and President Obama each made their way to Capitol Hill Wednesday as the battle over the future of Obamacare heats up.

U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Wednesday that Democrats in Congress want to see Republican lawmakers' plan for a replacement healthcare program before they repeal the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.

A U.S. judge almost halved the award that ordered Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit to pay plaintiffs who said they were injured by hip implants.

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Republican U.S. Senator Mike Enzi introduced on Tuesday a resolution allowing for the repeal of Obamacare, President Barack Obama's signature health insurance program that provides coverage to millions of Americans, Enzi's office said in a statement.

U.S. safety regulators are investigating complaints that the front passenger seat belts can fail in about 313,000 Hyundai midsize cars.

The Philippine Food and Drugs Administration has ordered pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur Inc. to stop airing television and radio advertisements of its dengue vaccine in violation of a ban on promoting prescription or ethical drugs in mass media.

Delivery drivers from Teamsters Local 120 voted unanimously to strike O'Reilly Auto Parts in Minnesota unless the company agrees to a renewed labor contract that increases pay and safety standards.

Hundreds of children's denim jackets are being recalled this week because of metal snaps that pose a choking hazard.

Honda Motor Co. is recalling 633,753 Odyssey minivans in the U.S. because the second-row seats could move unexpectedly.

In a story Dec. 22, The Associated Press reported that the state of California banned self-driving Uber cars over safety concerns.

Nearly 30,000 strollers are being recalled this week because a gap in the folding hinge poses a laceration hazard.

Fiat Chrysler is recalling nearly 50,000 small SUVs worldwide because the engines could stall while being driven.

Stock prices may have soared since the November election, but the U.S. economy is ending 2016 on an anemic note.

Angered by skyrocketing drug prices, a pair of senators on Wednesday urged Congress to block companies from cornering the market on old, off-patent drugs.

The Department of Defense is providing $80 million to establish a bio-research and manufacturing institute in Manchester, New Hampshire, to develop transplant tissues and organs for injured American soldiers and other patients.

Every year billions of people visit sites like WebMD or NIH to find health information.

More than 16 million people are living with a disease related to smoking, reports the CDC.