Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam.

A half dozen health information technology firms said Monday they will begin working to make their systems interoperable so that doctors across the U.S. can more easily share health records.

In January, Fair Isaacs FICO Labs indicated that the average debt outstanding (per student with loans) increased to $27,253 in 2012.

A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.