President Barack Obama is directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages, an escalating problem that has endangered patients and raised the possibility of price gouging.

Hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors is being investigated by federal regulators for using inside information to profit from a health care takeover in 2009, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Social Security announced on Wednesday a 3.6 percent increase in benefits for next year, the first raise since 2009

Some 55 million Social Security recipients will get a 3.6 percent increase in benefits next year, their first raise since 2009, the government announced Wednesday.

Social Security recipients will get a raise in January their first increase in benefits since 2009.

President Barack Obama appealed anew Tuesday for Americans to put pressure on Republican members of Congress to support his jobs legislation, declaring that "we are in this together."

The executive committee of New York's second-largest public workers union on Monday supported a new tentative contract that could avoid 3,500 layoffs.

A new study supports getting mammograms every other year instead of annually.