Reuters: Health

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has begun laying the groundwork for overhauling the troubled U.S. healthcare system, reaching out to interest groups and building grass-roots sup...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States has made clear progress in steadying its financial system, thanks in part to a $700 billion bailout fund authorized by Congress, but the rehabilitation process...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Top U.S. nuclear diplomat Christopher Hill said on Friday he believed North Korea understood what was required to reach a deal on verifying Pyongyang's earlier declaration abo...

NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) - A report on Friday expected to show the biggest monthly U.S. jobs loss in 26 years is set to pile more pressure on the Federal Reserve to slash rates again and add ur...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States had "robust" talks about the implications of current financial turmoil on their economies and the importance for China of having domestic-led growth ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chief executives of General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC said they would consider restarting merger talks if needed to win their slice of up to $34 billion in emergency U...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top U.S. phone company AT&T Inc said it will eliminate 12,000 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, in a fresh wave of cuts to cope with an economic downturn that has exac...

(Reuters) - General Motors Corp and Chrysler LLC are considering accepting a pre-arranged bankruptcy as the last-resort price of getting a multi billion dollar government bailout, Bloomberg reporte...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama said on Wednesday struggling automakers have put forward a "more serious" restructuring proposal to Congress but withheld judgment on the plans unti...

TOKYO/ BEIJING (Reuters) - Central banks in Europe are poised to slash interest rates on Thursday to try to contain a global economic slump that appears to be spreading faster than policy makers in...