The man who authorities say shot and wounded two police officers outside the Pentagon before he was fatally shot Thursday had a history of mental health problems, authorities in the man’s home state of California said Friday. Source: Yahoo News

Anyone who’s followed the health care debate even casually over the past year has probably heard Rep. Bart Stupak’s name mentioned a time or two. The nine-term Democrat from Michigan is the author of the “Stupak Amendment,” a rider attached to the House health care legislation that would effectively ban most government funding of abortion [...]

Shares of some top health care equipment companies were mixed at the close of trading: Becton Dickinson rose $.10 or .1 percent, to $78.60. Source: Yahoo News