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With its IOUs and plans to close state offices three days a month, California gets all the attention as lawmakers fight to write a budget set off balance by a $26.3 billion deficit.But the dozens of states that made spending cuts, tapped into reserves or relied on federal stimulus funds to patch together budgets that took effect this past week are ...

Top-level staff members of the Obama White House earn the same amount as their predecessors in the Bush administration, according to a report submitted to Congress Wednesday.

Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

After cancer patient Debby Smith expressed frustration, President Obama hugged her during a forum yesterday in Virginia.

Investigators are focusing on at least five doctors who prescribed drugs to Michael Jackson as they try to unravel the circumstances surrounding the pop stara s death, according to law enforcement sources.

Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed Senate Bill 202 on Thursday. The bill would have repealed Missouri's helmet law for motorcycle riders.

In a split decision released Wednesday, July 1, the Ohio Supreme Court said the parents of a Cincinnati teen who had an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic do not have the right to other minors' medical records.

Determined to advance President Barack Obama's health care agenda, key Senate Democrats are calling for a government-run insurance option to compete with private plans, as well as a $750-per-worker annual fee on larger companies that do not offer coverage to employees.

JACKSON, Miss. - Authorities say a nurse's assistant has been sentenced to probation, a fine and anger management for hitting a vulnerable adult in her care.

BATON ROUGE - Gov. Bobby Jindal use his veto pen Tuesday to scratch through 53 items and provisions, slicing millions of dollars that were to go to local projects across the state.

A former Oklahoma City doctor has been sentenced to nine years and one month in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs.

By NATE JENKINS Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. -- Nebraska has been wrongfully denying Medicaid coverage to hundreds of low-income residents whom state officials argued did not work enough to comply with a welfare-to-work program, a judge has ruled.

A jury has acquitted former North Carolina state Sen. Hugh Webster of embezzlement involving $12,000 given him by his aunt.

Attorney General Mike Cox on Wednesday opposed an immediate rate hike for 400,000 Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan policyholders who buy their own insurance, saying the insurer hasn't done enough to prove the need for the increase before a full hearing is held.

A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a physician assistant late yesterday for his role in a $7.7 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien of the Central District of California and Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson of the Department of Health & ...

The state is beginning a new budget year with conflicting views about the fiscal year that just ended.

A federal investigation has found that heart attack survivors enrolled in a study of a controversial alternative medicine treatment were not told enough about potential dangers from the drug being tested, including death.

Popular smoking cessation drugs Chantix and Zyban received black box warnings from the FDA, the strongest of its kind.

In a letter outlining the details, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., said their revised plan would cost dramatically less than an earlier, incomplete proposal, and help show the way toward coverage for 97 percent of all Americans.

The Associated Press 114 comments The fattest and fittest towns in America share differing opinions on health.