The February 10 article in the newspaper "describes a number of disturbing incidents at Select Medical (long-term care hospitals) that allegedly resulted in patients deaths," Senators Max Baucus and Charles Grassley wrote in a letter to the company. "The article also suggests that ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comparing medical treatments to find the best and the cheapest may be a pillar of U.S. healthcare reform efforts, but very little such research is being done, according to a report published on Tuesday. Most of the so-called comparative effectiveness research is done at ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Inoculating children against flu protects more people of all ages in the larger community, probably because young people tend to spread viruses through physical play, Canadian researchers said on Tuesday. Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario found there were ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Greece, pressing for curbs on financial speculation it blames for worsening the country's debt crisis, said on Tuesday the idea would be examined by the G20 leading powers at their next meeting. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou told reporters after a meeting with ...

The 66 to 34 vote allows the Senate to move toward a final vote for the bill, part of what Democrats call a "jobs agenda" to bring down the country's 9.7 percent unemployment rate before November congressional elections. The Senate is expected to pass the bill within the next few days ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - The actress Lindsay Lohan has sued E*Trade Financial Corp for $100 million, saying a "milkaholic" baby girl who appeared in a recent commercial was modeled after her. Lohan alleged that online brokerage's use in the ad the girl, also named Lindsay, improperly ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental approach that looks for the DNA leaking out from dead and dying cells may provide a route to a blood test for breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday. An initial study showed the test detected 70 percent of breast cancer cases, and correctly ...

No one was killed in what the Mucusso village's local administrator said was "a fight between man and beast," just eight years after Angola's three-decade long civil war almost wiped out all of the African nation's wildlife. "The situation in Mucusso is worrying. What we are ...

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - The number of U.S. households with a net worth of at least $1 million jumped 16 percent last year after dipping sharply during the financial crisis, an industry consulting group said on Tuesday. Households with a net worth of $1 million or more, excluding ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Wealthy Italians have grown richer during the economic crisis thanks to money shipped home under a generous tax amnesty, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers study. The combined wealth of Italy's richest 640,000 families was up 19 percent at a record 882 billion euros ($1.2 ...