Federal regulators issued the highest amount warning letters to medical device companies in 2012 than over the last seven years, according to a new study.

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) lashed out at Democrats over the issue of abortion on Monday just minutes after a jury returned a guilty verdict in the high-profile case of an abortion doctor accused of multiple homicides.

A jury found him guilty of delivering live babies at his Philadelphia clinic and then killing them.

The federal government on Monday sought to block a judge's order requiring the agency to remove all age restrictions from the birth control pill known as Plan B.

A lower court judge struck down age limits on the sale of Plan B, saying they were driven by politics rather than science. He gave the government until Monday to seek a delay from a higher court.

The Justice Department filed a brief Monday requesting the delay, saying the lower court "plainly overstepped its authority."

If the federal healthcare overhaul rolls out like its predecessor in Massachusetts, employer-based health insurance might be safe.

Republicans argue that President Obama's healthcare law will erode employer-based coverage. Businesses will stop offering coverage to their workers and instead push employees into individual policies, critics predict.

But when Massachusetts implemented its healthcare law — highly similar to the Affordable Care Act — employer-based insurance actually increased, according to a new report from the consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Congress will redouble its focus on Medicare’s flawed physician payment formula this week as the Senate Finance Committee takes up the issue.

The Finance panel will hold a hearing Tuesday on repealing and replacing Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR), which mandates reimbursement cuts that have piled up for years as lawmakers have struggled to find a long-term solution. Those cuts create the need for an annual “doc fix.”

Lawmakers have long sought to fix Medicare’s payment system, but enthusiasm for the task rose this year after the Congressional Budget Office cut the estimated cost for reforming it.

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"Why would you trust the bureaucracy with your health if you can’t trust the bureaucracy with your politics," asked Gingrich.

Ginsburg said she would have preferred a narrower ruling that didn't cut off the political process of defining abortion limits