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U.S. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg said he will try to modify a law that expands prescription-drug coverage under Medicare starting in 2006 to trim the cost, ...

The state is taking back $675,000 worth of Australian-made gas masks bought for police after Sept.

GenVec, Inc announced that it has received a letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today, which allows the company to proceed with the randomized, controlled ...

WASHINGTON A nip of the rules here, a tuck there. Recent proposals and actions by the Securities and Exchange Commission are raising concerns among investor advocates that ...

From their office in the plains of northern Italy, designers of two hulking cranes worried about how they would be used to build a bridge set to reshape Toledo's skyline.

He said the development of technology would also have an impact on environmental development.

Facing legislators' doubts, an agency chief defended plans to assign more patients to health maintenance organizations Friday, while outside the hearing he chatted with an ...

A CEBU City councilor wants to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to carefully examine all financial records and investment portfolios of pre-need plan firms.

Major components of New Albany's $40 million expansion of its sewage system have gone into operation, project manager Sam Lahanis said, and the entire system should be ...

In a report published on its Web site last week, the Texas Hospital Association attacked the massive Medicaid and CHIP cuts passed by Texas lawmakers two years ago as a ...

With results from the latest round of groundwater, soil and indoor sampling due back as early as this week, the Environmental Protection Agency may be reaching a crossroads ...

When John T. Giordano and Gerald Babcock began working on UNLV's Paradise campus about two years ago, the veteran janitors noticed hundreds of cuts in the carpet, the ...

The state Senate last week reached the conclusion that its members have no fiscal alternative to raiding the Health Care Trust Fund yet again to prop up the Medicaid program ...

The latest winter storm in Rhode Island failed to bring snow, but it has brought slick roads for this morning - s commute.

Airplane engines belch pollutants by the ton, while baggage carts, food service trucks and other support vehicles add to ozone and toxic air.

A DuPont Co. plan to change its titanium dioxide recipe at its Edge Moor pigment and coatings plant in Fox Point will go to a state public hearing March 1, a review that ...

The secret dumping behind the Highlands Ranch sewage treatment plant spanned months.

Greenwich Hospital is clarifying its admittance policies with Westchester County hospitals as area health-care providers define their roles in serving Port Chester and Rye, ...

U.S. companies are starting to try to reduce greenhouse gases to earn pollution credits under the Kyoto Protocol, a former Interior Department official said.

At age 69, Shirley Mildes never imagined she would find herself without a primary-care physician.

At the same time Virginia is trying to get excess nitrogen and phosphorus out of its waterways and bays, it is among the nation s leading importers of sewage sludge, which ...

Gale Rabalais has been confined to a wheelchair for 23 years. He takes pills daily for high blood pressure and bladder infections.

For many companies that passed out employee stock options like party favors during the go-go 1990s, the looming requirement that those options be treated as business ...

The drumbeat against prescription painkillers has been pretty steady for the last few months.

Bob Pitts knows doughnuts. He fried his first one in 1961 at the original Dunkin' Donuts shop in Quincy, Mass.

Republican Sen. David Knudson was angry, and he didn't try to hide it. Testimony had ended one recent legislative day on Knudson's bill to raise the state tax on cigarettes ...

Children sleep on office couches or travel across Arkansas to find a bed in a foster care system needing hundreds of new homes, but officials say that's no reason to lower ...

Once Upon a Story Kids are invited to submit their stories in the Pioneer Press' annual Once Upon a Story writing contest.

In state and federal courtrooms last week, prosecutors told stories of fallen executives treating their companies like personal fiefdoms - raiding the treasuries, decreeing ...

In the months before Philadelphia mortgage lender American Business Financial Services Inc.

Since Clifton House in Minneapolis closed a few years ago, the Christian Science-centered nonprofit group has been looking for a new home.

For weeks now all anyone could do is guess what will be built on Battle Mountain.

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suspended a Tk 55 crore public floating of Premier Bank Ltd after around 25,000 beneficiary owners' (BO) accounts suspected ...

Amgen Inc. said it would stop giving an experimental drug for Parkinson's disease to 48 people who received it as part of a trial because tests found it worked no better ...

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Outrigger Telescopes ...

Ron Holmes drives nearly 30 miles every day to get to the job that he loves - at $8 an hour.

What was once lost in Murphysboro may soon be found if the city, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency and a few businesses can get together and re-open the old ...

Pfizer and Microsoft Corp. have announced the companies are filing parallel lawsuits against two international pharmacy spam rings operating websites that sell illegal ...