WASHINGTON - In a surprise twist to the effort to ease access to morning-after pills, the government has lowered the age limit to 15 for one brand - Plan B One-Step - and will let it be sold over the counter. Today, Plan B and its generic competition ...

Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has tr ...

If small business doesn't hire more workers, is it because the fledgling company just doesn't have the sales or the secret formula for success? Or is it because the firm just decides not to expand on account of a large and looming disincentive to gro ...

WASHINGTON - Retired as a city worker, Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. Pugach doesn't see herself as upper-income by any stretch, but President Barack Obama's budget would ...

[caption id="attachment_22517" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]WASHINGTON - Medical claims costs - the biggest driver of health insurance premiums - will jump an average 32 percent for Americans' individual policies under Presid ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - With unemployment stubbornly high and economic growth shrinking, it is clear the economy is headed in the wrong direction. And the Affordable Care Act is a major cause. Employers are resisting hiring new workers, at least partly to ...

[caption id="attachment_20640" align="alignright" width="300"] (File Photo)[/caption]Despite his opposition to President Obama's health-care overhaul, Gov. Christie said Tuesday that New Jersey would take money from the Affordable Care Act to extend ...

Tulsa's Catholic hospitals had little response Friday to proposed federal rules that would loosen contraception insurance requirements for church-related nonprofit organizations, but an attorney for an Oklahoma City company challenging the mandate in ...

WASHINGTON - Buying your own health insurance will never be the same. This fall, new insurance markets called exchanges will open in each state, marking the long-awaited and much-debated debut of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The goa ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It's a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. The c ...