On Friday, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met European Union officials to discuss a long-pending free-trade agreement, health care activists and HIV-positive people took to the streets in New Delhi.
President Barack Obama's budget proposal Monday will offer several measures to trim the federal deficit in the next 10 years. But it would leave largely unchanged the biggest drivers of future government spending: the Medicare, Medicaid and ...
LONDON—European regulators said the Continent's banks are well on their way to replenishing their capital cushions, but concerns persist that the lenders aren't taking sufficiently drastic actions to fortify themselves.
After a six-year effort, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would formally ban insider trading by Congress, along the way picking up support from some surprising backers—lawmakers who actively trade stocks.
MADRID—Bankia SA, which just months ago was hailed as a success of the country's banking consolidation, on Friday will outline its plans to comply with Spain's new bank-cleanup rules—standards that have raised some doubts about the lender's ...
The $25 billion settlement with banks over alleged foreclosure abuses will provide financial relief to an estimated one million at-risk borrowers, raising new hopes for an economy still hurting from the mortgage bust.
When Diamond Foods Inc. bought Pop Secret from General Mills Inc. in 2008, Chief Executive Michael J. Mendes called several hundred employees together at the nut company's offices in rural Stockton, Calif., and laid out his vision for ...
Hurt by a weak economy and worries about cuts in government health-care spending, hospital stocks lost a lot of luster last year. And Universal Health Services (ticker: UHS) got tarnished right along with the rest. Though up 29% since ...
BRUSSELS—European Health Commissioner John Dalli said Thursday he remains "deeply concerned" about the potential health impact for women in Europe and elsewhere over the faulty silicone breast implants by French firm Poly Implant Protheses.
The Obama administration released finalized new rules for how health insurers describe what their plans cover Thursday, and told insurers that they have until September to prepare the documents for the new open enrollment season.
When the administration affirmed last month that church-affiliated employers must buy health insurance that covers birth control, the outcry was instant. Critics complained that certain institutions should be exempt as a matter of religious ...
Pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts Inc. and Medco Health Solutions Inc. are in talks with officials at the Federal Trade Commission to address issues raised by the agency about their proposed $29 billion merger, but no final decision ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Coventry Health Care Inc.’s fourth-quarter earnings fell 43% as the managed-care company’s enrollment declined, though revenue increased more than expected.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Canadian stocks fell Thursday as telecoms and health care stocks sold off, offsetting positive sentiment from news that Greek leaders had struck a deal to avoid default.
Health-insurer WellPoint Inc. is planning to stop covering Pfizer Inc.'s Lipitor cholesterol-lowering pills for millions of members in favor of generic versions, marking a new challenge to Pfizer's efforts to fend off generic competition to ...