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President Barack Obama and his officials are doing their best to drum up public concern over the shock wave of spending cuts that could strike the government in just days. So it's a good time to be alert for sky-is-falling hype.

Connecticut's health care exchange announced Monday it has selected a Virginia company with a troubled history in the state to run a new center to help consumers enroll in a health insurance plan beginning later this year.

The Food and Drug Administration has expanded approval of a Bayer cancer pill to treat tumors of the intestinal tract that don't respond to other treatments.

Health care giant Johnson & Johnson said Monday that it expects to take a charge of about $100 million to its first-quarter net income due to Venezuela's currency devaluation.

The health insurance industry is arguing that new health reform regulations just issued by the Obama administration will result in sudden and sharp cost increases for health care.

The head of the U.S. Small Business Administration says she doesn't expect operations at the agency to be dramatically affected by automatic federal budget cuts scheduled to begin March 1.