WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's decision to pull the plug on a financially flawed long-term care insurance plan is likely to worsen a dilemma most middle-class families are totally unprepared for. Read the complete article
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain clarified his position on abortion Thursday, a day after saying he opposed the procedure but didn't believe the government or other people should have a role in the decision to terminate a pregnancy. Read the complete article
Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good. Read the complete article
CHICAGO (AP) -- A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people's sexual behavior are taking hold. Read the complete article
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors announced an aggressive crackdown against California pot dispensaries Friday, vowing to shut down dozens of growing and sales operations and saying that the worst offenders are using the cover of medical marijuana to act as storefront drug dealers. Read the complete article
The Oregon Health Authority has ambitious reform plans, and Monday night Portlanders can hear about them and weigh in. The meeting is Monday, Oct. 10, from 6-8 p.m. at the University Place Hotel & Conference Center, 310 S.W. Lincoln St. Read the complete article
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Avoid foreign produce. Wash and peel your fruit. Keep it refrigerated. None of these common tips would have guaranteed your safety from the deadliest food outbreak in a decade, the one involving cantaloupes from Colorado. Read the complete article
One-fifth of Medicare nursing home patients with advanced Alzheimer's or other dementias were sent to hospitals or other nursing homes for questionable reasons in their final months, often enduring tube feeding and intensive care that prolonged their demise, a new study found. Read the complete article
Veteran singer Dionne Warwick has challenged former U.S. President Bill Clinton to do more to tackle Aids in their native U.S. rather than focusing on helping sufferers abroad. She wants to set up a meeting with Clinton, who founded the Clinton Health Access Initiative, to tackle diseases such as Aids across the world and urge him to turn his attention to the crisis at home. Read the complete article
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- A severe shortage of drugs for chemotherapy, infections and other serious ailments is endangering patients and forcing hospitals to buy life-saving medications from secondary suppliers at huge markups because they can't get them any other way. Read the complete article
