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Sacramentans and their Central Valley cousins along Highway 99 have reason to feel stressed at the gas pump: They're paying Bay Area…
Jun 7, 2008Price Spike Follows Self-Serving Prediction of $150 a Barrel, Israeli Threat Against Iran; U.S. Government Must Speed Market Regulation Santa Monica, CA…
Jun 6, 2008An unprecedented spike in crude oil prices followed the release of a dour unemployment report Friday, sending the stock market to its…
Jun 6, 2008Addicts: Officials Could Put End To Doctor-Shopping. An online prescription drug database that allows doctors and pharmacists to track a patient's medication…
Jun 5, 2008Ideas to help people ease the burden of high gas prices are swirling in Washington. Will any of them work?
Jun 5, 2008This was the first time since the 1940's that California has held two primaries in one year. In their zeal to place…
Jun 5, 2008Call it Big Pharma U. It's the commonplace practice of drug companies and medical device manufacturers to flood medical schools with millions…
Jun 3, 2008Do you want to know what California's stem cell agency is doing with California taxpayers' $6 billion? Here's one way...
Jun 3, 2008Los Angeles, CA -- Doctors and pharmacists are having trouble cutting off drug abusers because of the state's clunky process for checking…
Jun 3, 2008Government Must Speed Market Regulation, Says Consumer Watchdog; Group Calls for Stiffer Oil Trading Rules and Oversight of Refineries Santa Monica,…
Jun 2, 2008Dr. Alan Trounson, the California stem cell institute's president, wants to revise the agency's strategic plan. The effort is needed, but Trounson…
Jun 2, 2008ABC World News stirred up a mini ethics controversy with its report last week exposing California Representative Dan Lungren’s use of creative…
Jun 2, 2008Wireless phone service providers may avoid paying millions of dollars in lawsuits if the Federal Communications Commission develops rules for early termination…
Jun 2, 2008The Supreme Court let stand lower court rulings that held federal arbitration law does not pre-empt class-action litigation against T-Mobile USA Inc.,…
Jun 2, 2008Rising fuel costs eat into profits and curb fun, yet boost wealth for some Like invisible fumes spreading across the ground and…
Jun 1, 2008A drug company stands to financially benefit from proposed state legislation that could invalidate a class-action invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against it. The bill,…
Jun 1, 2008State regulators are close to a deal with PacifiCare Health Systems Inc. to restore coverage to patients whose policies were canceled unfairly…
May 30, 2008A bill that would allow pharmacies in California to share patient prescription information with third-party businesses working for drugmakers was approved in…
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