NEW YORK, Feb 12 - U.S. stocks sharply cut losses on Thursday, with the Nasdaq swinging back into positive territory, following a Reuters report that the Obama administration was hammering out a program to subsidize...
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 - A U.S. peanut company blamed for a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 600 people was more concerned about the cost of the contamination than public health, members of the...
BOSTON, Feb 11 - Illegal anti-impotence drugs and herbs contaminated with the diabetes drug glyburide have caused some 150 cases of dangerously low blood sugar, researchers in Singapore reported on Wednesday. Four people have died,...
FRANKFURT, Feb 11 - German drugmaker Bayer has taken generics supplier Cipla to court for seeking approval for a copycat version of Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar in India, Bayer said on Wednesday. Previous hearings in...
CHICAGO, Feb 9 - "We have temporarily discontinued the use of peanuts," reads a handwritten sign behind the register at Penny's Noodle Shop in Oak Park, Illinois. Although the Asian noodle shop did not get...
CHICAGO, Feb 5 - Kellogg Co, the first company to report the financial costs of a sweeping U.S. peanut product recall caused by an outbreak of salmonella, said on Thursday the withdrawals will likely cost...
ROTHERA BASE, Antarctica, Feb 6 - Fifty years into a treaty demanding all scientific findings on Antarctica be freely shared, governments are trying to end a dispute over a surge in company patents on life...
WASHINGTON, Feb 4 - U.S. President Barack Obama signed a law on Wednesday expanding a health insurance program for children and raising tobacco taxes to pay for it, a big legislative victory a day after...
WASHINGTON, Feb 3 - U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday acknowledged an error after former Senator Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination as health secretary over tax problems, saying, "I've got to own up to my...
OBAMA ACKNOWLEDGES MISTAKE IN HANDLING OF FAILED DASCHLE NOMINATION - NBC INTERVIEW...