Gov't report: Smooth launch unsure for health law
There's no guarantee that President Barack Obama's health care law will launch smoothly and on time, congressional investigators say in the first ...
Nonprofit launches campaign to reach uninsured
A nonprofit group helping to spread the word about President Barack Obama's health care overhaul launched a campaign Tuesday that will target states ...
McCain presses Obama on secret emails
Republican Sen. John McCain on Monday questioned President Barack Obama about his political appointees' use of secret government email accounts at ...

Court hearing on hold over lung transplant rules
A court hearing over organ donor matches involving children is on hold after the 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl at the center of the lawsuit received ...

Mary Wilson sings in ceremony feting Rep. Dingell
A Capitol ceremony honoring Rep. John Dingell for becoming Congress's longest-serving member in history featured the expected, such as praise and ...

NY judge: Fed plan for morning-after pill sales OK
President Barack Obama's administration can go forward with its new plan to make the morning-after pill available to buyers of any age without ...

OTC morning-after pill sales coming - but not yet
Don't look for the morning-after pill to move next to the condoms on drugstore shelves right away — but after a decade-plus fight, it appears it ...

Feds: Morning-after pill appeal officially on hold
The Obama administration's appeal in the legal fight over morning-after pills has been officially put on hold until a judge weighs a new plan to allow ...

Lung transplant vote for children seeks balance
Faced with a federal judge's order in the heart-wrenching cases of two terminally ill children seeking lung transplants, a national review board ...
US transplant network resists lung rule changes
The national organization that manages organ transplants on Monday resisted making emergency rule changes for children under 12 who are waiting on ...

Judge's ruling challenges US transplant system
It's a life or death matter: Who gets the next scarce donated organ? In an unprecedented challenge to the nation's transplant system, a federal judge ...

Q & A on court ruling affecting morning-after pill
Don't expect to see morning-after pills for all ages on drugstore shelves anytime soon. A federal appeals court decision allowing girls of any age to ...

Pa. girl gets on lung donor list; boy also sues
A dying Pennsylvania girl has been placed on the adult waiting list for donated lungs amid a court fight over the nation's transplant rules with help ...
Sebelius: Pa. girl on waiting list for adult lung
The organ transplant network has placed a dying 10-year-old girl on the adult waiting list for a donated lung, complying with a judge's unusual order.

Court to allow girls to buy morning-after for now
A federal appeals court has decided to permit girls of any age to buy generic versions of emergency contraception without prescriptions while the ...
Court: Girls can buy morning-after pill for now
Girls of any age can buy generic versions of emergency contraception without prescriptions while the federal government appeals a judge's ruling ...
Some morning-after over-counter pill sales allowed
Generic versions of emergency contraception can be sold without a prescription or age restrictions while the federal government appeals a judge's ...

Sebelius won't intervene in Pa. transplant case
The U.S. health secretary said she won't intervene in an "incredibly agonizing" transplant decision about a dying Pennsylvania girl, noting that three ...

Top Obama appointees using secret email accounts
Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees are using secret government email accounts to conduct official business, The Associated Press ...

Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma
President Barack Obama said Monday that he wants to end the stigma of mental illness and enrolled the star power of actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn ...

A respite for Medicare; Social Security no worse
Medicare's long-term health is starting to look a little better, the government said Friday, but both Social Security and Medicare are still wobbling ...

Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf
President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services ...

Obama agenda marches on despite controversies
Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of cascading controversies, ...