Diabetes

RALEIGH, N.C. - The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Vietnam veterans may soon get disability compensation for heart disease because of concerns about the defoliant Agent Orange.

TRENTON, N.J. - A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court ruling dismissing the first product liability lawsuit among thousands alleging British drugmaker AstraZeneca PLC's antipsychotic drug Seroquel triggered a patient's diabetes.