Magellan Health Services Inc.'s profit shrank 18 percent in the first quarter as higher health care costs ate into gains in revenue in its radiology and pharmaceutical businesses, but still met Wall Street expectations.

Though infants are especially vulnerable to infectious disease, only 78 percent of them in New Jersey have been immunized against those illnesses by the time they are 2 years old, according to health officials.

Federal regulators defended BPA even as the first major study of health effects in people linked it with possible risks for heart disease and diabetes.

Patients deferring hospital procedures, the challenges facing managed care companies, and biotechnology pipelines will be among the themes discussed at the Jefferies health care conference, which begins Tuesday in New York.

LANSING -- A campaign to make "affordable and comprehensive health care coverage" a constitutional right in Michigan announced the endorsement of several health care groups today, midway through a signature collection effort aimed at putting the issue b