AP - President Barack Obama told the nation Saturday his health care overhaul is financially sound, but a new analysis by congressional budget experts of emerging House legislation said it would increase deficits by $239 billion over a decade.

AP - President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to “lose heart” Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.

AP - The nation’s first double hand transplant patient can wriggle his new fingers a litte bit now and grab a tennis ball, but what he really wants to do is be able to feel his wife’s hands when he holds them.

AP - House Democrats are preparing to advance legislation that would deliver on President Barack Obama’s promise to remake the nation’s costly health care system and cover some 50 million uninsured.

AP - Scientists have found seven key genes in the type of brain tumor affecting Sen. Edward Kennedy that together can predict how aggressive a patient’s cancer will be.