Only Miss. abortion clinic gets license reprieve
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Mississippi from revoking the license of the state's only abortion clinic. U.S. District Judge Daniel P.

Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for 4/20
Thousands of people are expected to join an unofficial counterculture holiday celebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, ...
Budget: cover uninsured, trim Medicare, tax cigs
President Barack Obama's new budget offers Medicare cuts to entice Republicans into tax negotiations, while plowing ahead to cover the uninsured next ...
Maryland lawmakers pass medical marijuana bill
The Maryland General Assembly on Monday approved a measure allowing medical marijuana programs at research centers that choose to participate.

Pentagon struggles with high cost of health care
The loud, insistent calls in Washington to rein in the rising costs of Social Security and Medicare ignore a major and expensive entitlement program ...

Walgreen clinics expand care into chronic illness
Walgreen Co. has stretched the reach of its drugstore clinics beyond treating ankle sprains and sinus infections to handling chronic diseases such as ...

India's rejection of drug patent could reverberate
The India Supreme Court's rejection of a patent for an improved version of a costly cancer drug by Novartis AG could have big implications for the ...

Drug maker Novartis loses India patent battle
India's Supreme Court on Monday rejected drug maker Novartis AG's attempt to patent an updated version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that ...

India's top court to deliver Novartis judgment
India's Supreme Court is to rule Monday on a landmark patent case involving Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG that focuses on demands by major companies ...

The South: A near-solid block against 'Obamacare'
As more Republicans give in to President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, an opposition bloc remains across the South, including from governors ...

Study: Health law to raise claims cost 32 percent
A new study finds that insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under ...

Study: Health overhaul to raise claims cost 32 pct
Insurance companies will have to pay out an average of 32 percent more for medical claims on individual health policies under President Barack Obama's ...

High court struggles over generic drug delay deals
Supreme Court justices appeared troubled Monday over whether to stop deals between pharmaceutical corporations and their generic drug competitors that ...

Court: Can drug companies pay to delay generics?
Federal regulators are pressing the Supreme Court to stop big pharmaceutical corporations from paying generic drug competitors to delay releasing ...
Many UK doctors give useless drugs, treatments
More than three-quarters of British doctors prescribe a treatment they know probably won't work at least once a week, like low-dose drugs, vitamins, ...

Medical marijuana facility partners with rapper
A Michigan medical marijuana facility is partnering with a member of the Grammy-winning rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to cultivate and distribute a ...
Correction: Transplant-Rabies Death story
In a story March 16 about the death of a transplant recipient from a rabies-infected liver, The Associated Press, relying on information from a ...

NC airman at center of rabies case was outdoorsman
When William Edward Small told his father that he'd signed an organ donor card, it came as no surprise. "Little Ed" had been that way his whole life, ...

AstraZeneca reorg to cut 1,600 jobs in US, UK
Struggling Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC said Monday that it will eliminate 1,600 jobs, mostly in the U.S. and United Kingdom, as its new ...

Insurers warn of overhaul-induced sticker shock
Some Americans could see their insurance bills double next year as the health care overhaul law expands coverage to millions of people. The nation's ...

Grieving husband pushes bill for unproven remedies
After the best-selling Irish novelist Josephine Hart died from ovarian cancer in 2011, her husband was so devastated he often went to her grave to ...

Applying for Obama health care plan not easy
Applying for benefits under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul could be as daunting as doing your taxes. The government's draft application ...

Wash. and Colo. 'potrepreneurs' see opportunity
Kim Ridgway and her wife, Kimberly Bliss, can well envision the shop they plan to open — where they'll put the accessories, the baked goods and the ...

India rejects Bayer plea against cheap cancer drug
India's patent appeals office has rejected Bayer AG's plea to stop the production of a cheaper generic version of a patented cancer drug in a ruling ...