The state has received another two-week extension of the federal health care funding package that's crucial to the survival of the state's health insurance law.

Queensland Health has been ordered to improve security at clinics and accommodation in the Torres Strait after the alleged rape of a nurse earlier this year.

Substandard science has hurt the CDC's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said.

Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and a septuagenarian cancer survivor, is in excellent overall health, according to his doctors and medical records released Friday.

Shares of health care providers and service companies declined in light trading Friday as the overall markets ended narrowly mixed, after the government reported that Americans' spending rose in April to keep pace with rising costs.