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LA JOLLA ---- Scripps Health will partner with the county's large biomedical industry to develop more effective, lower-cost drugs, officials with the hospital system said Friday as they announced the plans the new Scripps Genomic Medicine Program.

NORTH COUNTY ---- Valley Center High School officials announced this week that they had won a 150,000 state grant to build a "health careers pathway" program, available first to next year's ninth-graders.

The Urban County Government must provide health insurance benefits for all retirees, even those who try to regain the benefit after opting out of it years earlier, the Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled yesterday.

Private health-insurance policies for individuals and small companies in Washington now will be required to offer coverage for mental-health...

In a major breakthrough, the state has cleared the way for Sutter Health to issue a record $910 million in tax-exempt construction bonds after the Sacramento-based hospital chain agreed to donate millions to rural hospitals and clinics.