Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam.

President Barack Obama presided Monday over the first meeting of his new-look Cabinet in a sobering climate of forced fiscal belt-tightening, urging humane management of spending cuts for communities and families that are "going to be hurting."

Oregon's health insurance exchange will have staff who speak Spanish, Russian and Vietnamese to help explain and market the service that's expected to provide health coverage to thousands of Oregonians.

A half dozen health information technology firms said Monday they will begin working to make their systems interoperable so that doctors across the U.S. can more easily share health records.

Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. reported a smaller fourth-quarter loss Monday, but said it is still waiting for federal regulators to make a decision about the status of its weight loss drug Belviq.

The spending cuts are here to stay if you believe the public posturing Sunday.

Despite their unpopularity, those deep federal spending cuts look like they'll be around for a while.

With Washington gridlocked again over whether to raise their taxes, it turns out wealthy families already are paying some of their biggest federal tax bills in decades even as the rest of the population continues to pay at historically low rates.