President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. economy is growing "way too slow" but that leaders at a world summit have made progress at getting their countries on firmer footing.

The experimental stem cell procedure that Texas Gov. Rick Perry underwent this summer could be restricted or even blocked under new rules being considered Friday by the state's Medical Board.

The toll of the recession and Florida's high unemployment rate will hit businesses next year as they will have to pay higher unemployment taxes.

Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, an encouraging sign that the job market is slowly healing. Weekly applications fell 9,000 to 397,000, only the third time since April that the figure has dropped below 400,000.

A Rhode Island lawmaker is asking for a state investigation of a hospital network after five of its facilities reported that up to 2,000 patients received the wrong form of medication.

Some of the money from President Barack Obama's health care law is flowing to place you might not expect.

Federal health experts are recommending that use of Merck's blockbuster cholesterol drug Vytorin be expanded to patients with kidney disease, but not those with late-stage disease who are on dialysis.

Cigna Corp. said last week that it expects earnings growth in 2012, but the health insurer's prospects will get a more significant boost in 2013, according to a Citi analyst.