Health Care

Taxpayers will fork over nearly $10 billion more next year to cover double-digit premium hikes for subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's law, according to a study being released Thursday.

Federal prosecutors have charged two former pharmaceutical executives with fixing prices of generic drugs, part of an ongoing government investigation into anticompetitive tactics by companies that make lower-cost drugs intended to reduce medication costs.

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Cuisinart is voluntarily recalling about 8 million food processors after dozens of consumers reported finding pieces of broken blades in their food.

Food giant ConAgra is paying for a salmonella outbreak that sickened hundreds of Americans 10 years ago.

Johnson & Johnson says it is ending talks to buy Swiss drugmaker Actelion Pharmaceuticals.

A federal judge is scheduled to consider an $11.2 million plea deal to settle a criminal case against ConAgra stemming from a salmonella outbreak linked to the company's Peter Pan peanut butter that sickened hundreds a decade ago.

A Nebraska group said Tuesday that it's working with its founder, Gov. Pete Ricketts, to eliminate what it considers cumbersome job-licensing requirements that create a drag on the state economy.

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.