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More than $530,000 in new funding is being distributed to a California program to help Medicare beneficiaries get more information about their health care choices, federal authorities announced Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill joined some of her colleagues Tuesday in pressing for more transparency in the health care reform debate as legislation moves to the Senate floor.

HealthSouth Corp. is asking a circuit court judge for a temporary restraining order on the sale of a 92-foot yacht they claim is owned by former CEO Richard Scrushy.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. has been awarded a construction-management contract at Stanford Medical Center and an extension on an existing contract at the NASA Johnson Space Center. (JEC)

MedShare, a nonprofit that sends medical supplies overseas, says it shipped $88,000 in emergency aid to tsunami-devastated American Samoa at the request of the Department of Public Health there.