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Two-thirds of patients with type 2 diabetes do not adequately control their blood sugar, leaving millions of U.S. patients vulnerable to the disease’s complications, according to a report released Wednesday. Experts caution that the results show a dangerous lack of attention from both doctors and the estimated 13.8 million Americans …

WASHINGTON – Lawmakers voted Thursday to block a six-month-old law that allows the government to sell wild horses (search) and burros, with opponents of the law protesting that the animals were ending up in processing plants and on the tables of foreign restaurants. The 249-159 House vote would stop the …

WASHINGTON – House Democrats sought reassurances Thursday that Republicans wouldn’t try to bypass them by adding private investment accounts to Social Security (search) legislation at the last moment. “This chairman has no interest, on a subject of this importance, in playing ‘gotcha’ in any way,” Rep. Bill Thomas (search), R-Calif., …