Ten people with ties to Puerto Rican health care companies have been accused in two Medicare fraud schemes totaling more than $2 million, federal officials said Thursday.

While employers continue to struggle finding qualified workers for skilled positions, 32 percent say they are willing to pay for relocation expenses in 2012, according to a nationwide study by CareerBuilder.

New research could mean millions of older women can skip frequent screening tests for osteoporosis: If an initial bone scan shows no big problems, many can safely wait 15 years to have another one, the study suggests.

Looking ahead to a post-retirement future and the safest withdrawal amount to maintain their savings, still-working employees have a better sense of how to pre-load to get to a financially safter spot.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s fourth-quarter net income jumped 20 percent, but the insurer saw signs of health care use picking up and left its 2012 earnings forecast unchanged.

Republican Rick Perry says he's dropping out of the GOP presidential race and endorsing Newt Gingrich.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits plummeted last week to 352,000, the fewest since April 2008. The decline added to evidence that the job market is strengthening.

The American Nurses Association and five other health care groups representing millions of health care professionals have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Acts minimum coverage requirement for most U.S. citizens.