The overall economy added 243,000 jobs last month — with the health-care sector continuing to show strength — while the unemployment rate fell to 8.3%. As the WSJ reports , that’s the lowest the jobless rate has been since Feb. 2009.... 

A Komen fundraising race from the fall. It hasn’t been a great week for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the breast-cancer advocacy group known for its pink-ribbon fundraising efforts. Today the group reversed a decision — made public only Tuesday... 

There are many mysteries when it comes to understanding Alzheimer’s disease, with one of the biggest questions centering on how the memory-robbing disease progresses. Decades ago, researchers discovered that the damage starts in the same part of the... 

Tobacco, alcohol … and sugar? A new commentary published in Nature argues that just as the first two substances are regulated in various ways by government authorities, so should be sugar. While acknowledging that food, unlike alcohol and tobacco,... 

By Louise Radnofsky The Obama administration is touting good news for seniors from the health-care overhaul law, pointing to $2.1 billion in discounts on prescription drugs for 3.6 million older consumers in 2011. Part of the law was intended to fill... 

Some of Komen’s funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates went towards referrals for mammograms. The controversy over the defunding of Planned Parenthood affiliates by breast-cancer group Susan G. Komen for the Cure is showing no signs of cooling... 

Birth-Control Recall: Pfizer has recalled about a million packs of birth-control pills on concerns that incorrect packaging could lead to unplanned pregnancies, but says it believes only 30 packs actually had the troublesome glitches, the WSJ reports... 

Why get a massage? Well, because it feels good, for one thing. But many people also hop on the table with the hope that massage therapy can help promote muscle recovery after a tough workout or provide other benefits. No one has looked closely at what... 

Here at Health Blog headquarters, we’ve been intrigued by the career of John Johnson ever since he left a company called Johnson & Johnson . That was back in 2007, when he became CEO of ImClone Systems, which was eventually acquired by Eli Lilly.... 

McNeil Oversight Changes: Johnson & Johnson is replacing two company group chairmen who had been charged with turning around the McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit after a series of recalls, the WSJ reports . Patrick Mutchler, charged with overseeing...