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Geisinger Health System spokeswoman Amanda O'Rourke said Wednesday the $1 million grant that was announced in February 2012 remains the only funding for a project that was projected to cost at least $25 million.

La Jolla homeowner Ann Romney had a beef about coastline development procedures so she complained to her city council.

FBI agents in Southern California served search and arrest warrants Wednesday morning as part of an ongoing investigation involving an international sports gambling ring, according to officials.

The Central Arkansas Library System is considering a plan to name its new children's library in honor of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The reality TV star gave birth to the couple's first child on Saturday in Los Angeles, California, and a loose-lipped nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the hospital where she had her baby, has allegedly revealed their new arrival's name.

Authorities say 19-year-old city resident Keith Callabrass was shot multiple times Sunday night on Cleveland Avenue in the North End.

A five month old girl is dead and her mother, 21 year old Bobbie M. Derryberry is facing multiple charges.

Arkansas' attorney general filed a brief Tuesday backed by his counterparts in 35 other states asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion fine levied against Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over the marketing of the antipsychotics drug Risperdal.

Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.

Federal regulators are investigating the deaths of two patients who received injections of a longer-lasting version of Eli Lilly’s antipsychotic Zyprexa.

Medtronic Inc.'s Infuse, designed to help bones heal after spinal surgery, works no better than a graft and carries side effects including an increased risk of cancer, two independent reviews found.

Con artists come in all shapes and sizes. Some even have medical degrees. Here's a look at how to guard against quackery in making medical choices.

An illustration picture shows the logo of the U.S. National Security Agency on the display of an iPhone in Berlin, June 7, 2013.

The Bethesda-based National Institutes of Health landed the No. 1 spot on the list.

Federal health officials believe a fatal outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in the VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System started in 2011, but they did not check hospital records that show Legionella bacteria appeared nearly four years earlier, a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review investigation found.

ViroPharma Inc is attracting preliminary interest from several pharmaceutical companies about buying the orphan drugmaker, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The headquarters building of Johnson & Johnson stands in New Brunswick in this 2009 file photo.

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

African-American and Hispanic children are far less likely to be seen by specialists -- for autism, but also other medical conditions -- and also less likely to receive specialized medical tests than their white peers, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Cases that get to the Supreme Court often involve complex issues over which the justices can reasonably disagree: Obamacare, "partial birth abortion" and the disputed Bush-Gore election, just to name a few.