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Up to the end, Columbus-based Irwin Financial Corp. anticipated a government bailout that never materialized.

In the scientific equivalent of affirmative action, the government is giving hundreds of millions of dollars a year to scientists whose projects are deemed less worthy than others.

The government is investigating a major insurance company for allegedly trying to scare seniors with a mailer warning they could ...

The anti-overdose drug naloxone should be made more available in the U.K. in order to stop preventable deaths among addicts, according to the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD).

A charity has called for A 75 million to be ploughed annually into a dedicated fund to help dementia sufferers.

overweight workers could be next. Government workers who smoke will pay higher health insurance premiums if they don't quit by the end of the year. Employees also will pay more if they refuse to pa...

Regarding 'FDA oversight means public health victory on tobacco' (Editorial, June 29): The task of the FDA is to protect customers from dangerous products. If a new drug were tested today that is found to have an almost negligible positive benefit as a mood elevator but has side effects of COPD, limb amputation, cancer and early death, it would be eliminated out of hand. However, the FDA is now tasked with the impossible job of 'regulating the manufacture ... of cigarettes and other tobacco products in a way that will save lives.' Utter hogwash. Tobacco is dangerous and cannot be made un-dangerous. . . . The same editorial states that tobacco kills and sickens many Americans, 'costing the health system $96 billion per year, making it a problem for all of us. That's why the federal government needed to step up and play a larger role.' This presupposes the socialist position that an individual who exhibits bad personal behavior becomes entitled carte blanche to his neighbor's wallet

NEW YORK With the feds taking fresh aim at tobacco marketing, the industry may hope for a public backlash against such governmental intrusion. But an AdweekMedia/Harris Poll, fielded in July, indicates such hope would be in vain. Asked what the federal government should do about tobacco advertising, a plurality of respondents (31 percent) said it should ban such ads altogether. Another 14 percent said tobacco advertising should be regulated more strictly. Twenty-seven percent said they were satisfied with the current level of regulation, and 11 percent said tobacco advertising shouldn't be regulated at all. (The rest were unsure.)

The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, the Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (INAC), and Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief, Shawn Atleo, met today to sign a Communications Protocol to affirm their commitment to work together on pandemic planning efforts.

President Obama named nine researchers as recipients of the National Medal of Science, and four inventors and one company as recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the highest honors bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers, and inventors. The recipients will receive their awards on October 7 at a White House ceremony.