A recent announcement by the U.S. Preventative Health Service can rather simply be summed up: Most men eventually get prostate cancer, but most don't die from it; those who do are mostly over 75 years of age, so that ends their continuing ...
From the Reason Foundation Gov. Scott Walker leads Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett 50-42 among those likely to vote in Wisconsin's June 5 recall election, according to a new Reason-Rupe poll of 708 Wisconsin adults on cell phones and landlines.
A rumor from Washington appeared to juice options activity in health-care providers' stock Thursday, and stoked share gains as well. Options traders made bullish bets on the sector, and on insurance companies in particular, early in the ...
Drug makers and a better-than-expected reading on U.S. consumer sentiment helped European stock markets end a choppy session with small gains.
By Sean Gardiner and Tamer El-Ghobashy The former bodega worker arrested Thursday in the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz was taken to Bellevue Hospital early Friday morning, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the matter said.
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A Minnesota health system that has come under scrutiny for its hiring of hospital contractor Accretive Health Inc. to handle billing and collections functions said its chief executive will leave at the end of July.
SALT LAKE CITY—Six-term U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch finds himself in the race of his life against former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist. Mr. Hatch came within a whisker of winning the GOP nomination outright at the party convention several weeks ago, ...
Syngenta AG said Friday it has agreed to pay $105 million to settle a class-action lawsuit by several Midwestern water companies related to its weedkiller atrazine.
German bond yields are falling. As fears among investors mount of a Greek exit from the euro, and concerns grow about the deteriorating financial health of many other European countries, investors are pouring their money into the perceived ...
MADRID—The head of Spain's Catalonia region Friday called for the central government to accelerate plans to share responsibility for regional debt because of increasing difficulties they face to finance themselves, while stressing his ...
Humans are quickly becoming an indoor species. In part, this is a byproduct of urbanization, as most people now live in big cities. Our increasing reliance on technology is also driving the trend, with a recent study concluding that American ...
You shouldn't expect to have a dazzling, movie star smile on the cheap. Korean National Police Agency said on Thursday it caught 47 people on charges of using an illegal dental whitening product that could endanger a patient's health.