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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will close the laboratories after last month's possible exposure of dozens of workers to anthrax and the discovery of a vial of smallpox this week.

California school officials say fewer public schools at all grade levels met state and federal benchmarks that are used to evaluate how well schools educate youngsters.

As many as one third of people whose information is exposed in a data breach will subsequently suffer some kind of fraud.

There comes a time when a drug that once helped a patient may be unnecessary or even harmful. Figuring out when to cut back is difficult, but the potential benefits are substantial.

The measure, first proposed in 2910, would shut down mines if owners fail to pay fines for safety violations.

The county’s rate is higher than all other urban counties in California, in part because of Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns. Sharp has a high rate of C-sections and delivers more babies than any other hospital in the state.

By a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that POM Wonderful's lawsuit against the Coca-Cola Company may go on. The repercussions of the case for the food and beverage industry are unclear.

One of the major issues that's emerged since the failed rollout of HealthCare.gov is that there was no lead contractor on the project. (CGI Federal was the biggest contractor -- awarded the most expensive contract -- but says it did not have oversight over the other parts of the system.) Instead, the quarterbacking was left to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a subagency of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Police officers on Monday described a fierce gunbattle that included thrown explosives, at the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A Navy commander charged with accepting the services of prostitutes, luxury travel and $100,000 in cash from a foreign defense contractor in exchange for classified information was given a Dec. 5 arraignment date.