Medical device maker Boston Scientific Corp. spent $480,000 in the second quarter to lobby the federal government on the health reform overhaul as well as other health care-related matters.That's even with the company's lobbying budget in the first quarter of 2010 and the prior-year period.The...

Low-cost vaccines that may have helped prevent the kind of salmonella outbreak that has led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs haven't been given to half of the nation's egg-laying hens.The vaccines aren't required in the U.S., although in Great Britain, officials say vaccinations...

Each of the 33 miners trapped a half-mile underground lived on two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk and a bite of crackers. Every other day.They were so careful in eating what was supposed to be a two-day emergency supply that when the outside world finally reached them 17 days after a mine...

Unstable soil gave way at an abandoned gold mine being worked illegally by wildcat miners, killing six miners and injuring two, officials said Tuesday.The accident occurred as the men were using jackhammers to dig four tunnels, Mining Minister Jose Khan said on state television. He said the...

U.S. safety officials have opened an investigation into three million Jeep Grand Cherokees over reports that problems with gas tanks could cause fires in some crashes.The preliminary investigation, begun Monday by the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration, is the first step in...

Roast beef and ham that was distributed to Walmart delicatessens nationwide and sold in sandwiches has been recalled because it might be tainted with potentially harmful bacteria, the officials said Tuesday.No illnesses have been reported from the 380,000 pounds of meat products that were made...

A judge's ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left some U.S. growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half of America's sugar supply.Duane Grant, chairman of the board at the Boise, Idaho-based...

Trapped nearly half a mile inside the earth and facing perhaps four months before rescue, 33 Chilean miners began accepting food, water and oxygen from above ground Monday as rescue teams worked to gauge their state of mind and brace them for the long wait ahead.Through a newly installed...

The Boeing Co. has won an $8.5 million order for engineering work to put virtual training systems into aircraft.The Pentagon said Monday the work would include design of two flight-worthy radar virtual training systems in T-45C aircraft. Work will be split between St. Louis and Israel and is...

Raytheon Co. won a $46.9 million Navy contract related to production of a transmitter group, fire-control system and engineering for the shipboard Aegis weapons system.Most of the work will be done in Andover, Mass., with some performed in Sudbury, Mass. It's expected to be completed by...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says there is no evidence that there are additional farms involved in a massive recall of more than half a billion eggs.Officials also said Monday they do not expect the number of eggs recalled to grow based on what they know now. The...

Iran's military has opened production lines for two new types of assault boats, state television reported Monday.The announcement came a day after Iran said it had developed an unmanned bomber aircraft that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the "ambassador of death" to Iran's enemies.Both...

Medtronic Inc., the world's largest medical device maker, spent $829,200 lobbying Congress on issues affecting its products in the second quarter, according to a recent disclosure form.The company lobbied on efforts in Congress to make it easier for patients to sue medical device companies via...

Health giant Johnson & Johnson has issued its ninth recall of a consumer health product in a year, this time covering millions of 1 Day Acuvue contact lenses sold in Japan and two dozen other countries in Asia and Europe.The affected contact lenses were mostly sold in Japan and none were sold...

The medical device industry's chief advocacy group spent nearly $380,000 lobbying the federal government in the second quarter of 2010, according to a recent disclosure form.AdvaMed, or the Advanced Medical Technology Association, lobbied on efforts in Congress to make it easier for patients to...

Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa Inc. said Monday its board has named Chris L. Ayers as chief operating officer for its global primary products business, effective immediately.Alcoa makes primary aluminum for numerous industries, operating 23 aluminum smelters around the globe and nine alumina...

Chile's president euphorically waved the note, written deep inside a collapsed mine, that his country waited 17 agonizing days to see: "All 33 of us are fine in the shelter," one of the trapped miners wrote in red letters.Authorities and relatives of the miners hugged, climbed a nearby hill,...

Iran's president offered friendship to the United States but also taunted Washington by saying he does not fear an attack by the U.S. because it could not even defeat a small army in Iraq, according to a television interview with the leader aired Sunday.President Barack Obama has repeatedly...