The world's biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years — a situation likely to hit poor AIDS patients around the world. | A Texas medical facility is being accused of pressuring a paralyzed illegal immigrant to return to Mexico. | President Obama is against repealing the health law's long-term-care CLASS Act and might veto Republican efforts to do so, an administration official tells The Hill, despite the government's announcement Friday that the program was dead in the water. | The Obama administration's signature health overhaul law, under relentless assault by Republicans, has suffered its first major casualty - a long-term care insurance plan. | The federal government is taking on a crucial new role in the nation's health care, designing a basic benefits package for millions of privately insured Americans. A framework for the Obama administration was released Thursday. | Seven California hospitals, including one each in Los Angeles and Orange counties, were hit with fines totaling nearly $800,000 for failing to prevent unauthorized access to patients' medical records, the state Department of Public Health announced today. | Four Massachusetts community hospitals are investigating how thousands of patient health records, some containing Social Security numbers and sensitive medical diagnoses, ended up in a pile at a public dump. | For patients and pharmacists in financially stricken Greece, even finding aspirin has turned into a headache. |