Acording to a new study by the Keystone Research Center and Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, the number of Pennsylvanians with employer-provided health insurance declined by 4.1 percent between 2000 and 2004.

The decline signals that about 494,000 fewer Pennsylvanians get health insurance through their employer today than did in 2000. One in seven of the people who lost employer-provided health insurance coverage in the U.S. between 2000 and 2004 lived in Pennsylvania

Officials from 80 countries gathered in Washington on Friday to come up with plans to fight the threat of a global outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu. President Bush urged pharmaceutical executives to focus on influenza vaccines. It's the latest in a series of preparations for a possible pandemic after criticism of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. Experts have been warning since 2003 that bird flu is the biggest current health threat to the world but policy efforts to battle it have increased in recent weeks.

The virus has killed millions of birds across Asia and infected more than 100 people, killing more than 60 of them in four Asian countries. Manufacturing a vaccine for bird flu would involve the same methods used for a vaccine against regular flu. But experts say the country's flu vaccine system is now so weak that if there were a bird flu outbreak, a vaccine would not be an option. Following last year's flu vaccine shortage, Congress and health agencies are working to find ways to lure drug companies back into the business of making it

Japan's Agriculture Ministry has found a 12th U.S. feed grain cargo tainted with Bt-10 biotech corn.

The ministry has asked the importer to immediately destroy the tainted portion of the cargo or ship it back to the United States. The cargo arrived on Sept. 10 at the port of Kashima near Tokyo

Local representatives and senators were asked for more research funding to prevent pregnancy complications at the Women in Government's 7th annual regional conference, on September, 28.

The number of preterm birth and low birth-weight infants are the most pressing obstetrical issues today, reports Michael Paidas, M.D., associate professor and director of The Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine

Local representatives and senators were asked for more research funding to prevent pregnancy complications at the Women in Government's 7th annual regional conference, on September, 28.

The number of preterm birth and low birth-weight infants are the most pressing obstetrical issues today, reports Michael Paidas, M.D., associate professor and director of The Program for Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Women's Health in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale School of Medicine