Health Care Industry
STOCKHOLM - An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law.
MADISON, Wis. - With the district in a financial crisis and hundreds of its members facing layoffs, the Milwaukee teachers union is taking a peculiar stand: fighting to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back.
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
July 5
New York Times on China, the sweatshop:
The labor strife spreading through China's factory cities has clearly frazzled the government.
TOPEKA, Kan. - The University of Kansas is hiring a new auditor and considering changes in the athletic department's board of directors to prevent future problems like a massive ticket-scalping scam recently uncovered there, the school's top administrator told her bosses Thursday.
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