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Hundreds of Portland, Oregon, paramedics are getting mandatory defensive-tactics training after a string of high-profile assaults by patients on medical workers responding to 911 calls.

Health care provider Kaiser Permanente says its chairman and CEO, Bernard Tyson, died unexpectedly Sunday at the age of 60.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris told members of Nevada's most powerful political union that she had them in mind when she proposed a "Medicare for all" plan that preserves private insurance

Medicare's 'Part B' monthly premium for outpatient care is rising to $144.60, an increase of nearly 7 percent

Trump administration will pursue raising sales age for e-cigarettes from 18 to 21 as part of anti-teen vaping effort

A Chinese maker of rabies vaccine that was fined $1.3 billion in a scandal that prompted a national crackdown on the industry says it has been declared bankrupt

E-cigarette maker Juul Labs says it will stop selling its No. 1 mint-flavored vaping pods

A New York judge has set a trial over the state's claims against the drug industry over the toll of opioids for January

White House and Speaker Pelosi part ways on plans to address prescription drug prices

Stocks are ending mostly higher on Wall Street, marking another set of records for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq.

AP Source: White House finds Pelosi plan on Medicare prescription drug negotiations 'unworkable"

Clarification: Air Quality-Georgia City story

For the first time drones are being tested to help fight malaria on the island of Zanzibar, off the coast of Tanzania

Study finds 53% of seriously ill Medicare recipients face major problems paying medical bills

President Donald Trump has long talked about getting the U.S. out the Paris climate deal, and Monday is first day he can finally do something about it.

Trump administration officials say they're working to resolve problems with HealthCare.gov following reports of widespread technical glitches on the first day of "Obamacare" sign-ups

Elizabeth Warren has proposed $20 trillion in federal spending over the next decade to provide health care to every American

Google, the company that helped make it fun to just sit around surfing the web, is jumping into the fitness-tracker business with both feet, buying Fitbit for about $2.1 billion

Google, the company that helped make it fun to just sit around and surf the web, is jumping with both feet into the fitness-tracker business, buying Fitbit for about $2.1 billion

Elizabeth Warren is promising to spend more than $20 trillion over the next decade to provide government-funded health care to every American without raising middle class taxes

Joe Biden's campaign is dismissing as "mathematical gymnastics" Elizabeth Warren's promise of financing a single-payer government insurance system without a middle-class tax hike

Google trots into the fitness and wearables field, spending $2.1 billion for pioneer Fitbit

Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack says Elizabeth Warren's increase in taxes on wealthy Americans to finance her health care proposal is unrealistic

Elizabeth Warren is promising to spend more than $20 trillion over the next decade to provide government-funded health care to every American without raising middle class taxes