A New York federal judge has ruled that the Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to women of all ages within 30 days.

Stocks are mostly higher in midday trading on Wall Street, making up some of their losses from the day before.

Stocks are notching small gains in early trading after the U.S. government reported that the number of people applying for unemployment benefits rose to the highest level since late November.

The compensation paid to outgoing Wellpoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly last year rose 56 percent, even as the company's shares slid on lower enrollment in its Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans.

A group of Republican legislators has forwarded a package of changes to Wisconsin's unemployment benefit rules to a state council for consideration.

Oregon's new health insurance exchange has approved 22 companies to offer medical and dental insurance to uninsured Oregonians.

Specialty materials and chemical products company Celanese said Tuesday that it is changing the accounting policy for its defined benefit pension plans and other benefit plans used by retirees.

Shares of several health insurers climbed in pre-market trading Tuesday, a day after the federal government released final Medicare Advantage rate data for next year that points to less severe funding cuts than investors originally had feared.