A Senate bill that would expand U.S. Food and Drug Administration oversight and give it the power to recall food is a step forward but it needs to be stronger, the head of the agency told lawmakers on Thursday.
Drug labels in the United States often omit information showing the severity of side effects or that a medicine is not very effective, two doctors said Wednesday.
Low-income Americans with no more than a high school education appear more likely to get vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu than people with more money and better schooling, according to a poll released on Friday.
Quarterly results from Whirlpool Corp, Fortune Brands and several other manufacturers pointed to slight improvements in the U.S. housing market, sending their shares higher.
Oil prices fell on Friday as a stronger U.S. dollar and doubts over the pace of economic recovery halted the commodity's recent rally.
Russell Read, the former chief investment officer of Calpers, the largest pension fund in the United States, knows his trees.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Friday laid out his most detailed description yet of the central bank's post-crisis approach to regulation and said requiring big banks to hold more capital was under consideration.
Stocks fell on Friday as weak industrial and energy shares overshadowed robust results from technology heavy-weights Microsoft and Amazon.com.
Ingersoll-Rand PLC , which makes heating and cooling systems for homes, businesses and transport, reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Friday despite challenges in its markets and gave a 2010 outlook above Wall Street estimates.
Intel Corp assured Clearwire Corp it is closely guarding its investment information on the wireless-broadband company after an insider-trading scandal surfaced last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Clearwire chief executive Bill Morrow.
Diversified U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International Inc posted a 15 percent profit drop that was far less severe than analysts had forecast, saying that cost-cutting had protected its margins.
Renewed talks to resolve Honduras' deep political crisis collapsed on Friday over whether leftist President Manuel Zelaya could return to power after he was toppled in a June coup.
U.S. stocks fell on Friday as declines in industrials, energy shares and some tech companies overshadowed strong earnings from Microsoft Corp .
General Motors Co bought all of the new shares offered by its struggling South Korean unit for $413 million and the U.S. carmaker will consider further financial aid if necessary, GM Daewoo said on Friday.
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai said he wanted a better and cleaner presidential election run-off in November to bring stability at a time when Taliban violence is at its worst in eight years of war.
After two years on the sidelines, a handful of retailers is getting ready to test the initial public markets again, emboldened by the stock market rally and a better consumer spending outlook.
Mongolia has shortlisted eight potential partners for its huge Tavan Tolgoi coking coal project, according to Temuulen Ganzorig, deputy director of Erdenes MGL, the Mongolian government company that will hold at least 51 percent of the equity.
Daylight Saving Time schedule ends on Sunday November 1 (The first Sunday of November) at 2 a.m., according to official information from the U.S. government.
U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co Inc's $41.1 billion takeover of smaller rival Schering-Plough Corp won approval from European Union antitrust regulators on Friday.
Freddie Mac, the second-largest U.S. home funding company, said on Friday its mortgage investment portfolio grew by an annualized 7.3 percent rate in September, while delinquencies on loans it guarantees accelerated.
South East Asian leaders are meeting in Thailand to work toward creating a political and economic union for the region by 2015.
Chinese President Hu Jintao, made the fifth phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday. President Hu expressed his confidence that a positive outcome at the upcoming Copenhagen world climate summit in December could be provided improvement in bilateral relations and faced the weather pattern challenge.
