The action comes after Kaiser Permanente and Health Net reach an agreement with a state agency. Two of the state's largest health plans agreed Thursday to reinstate coverage to nearly 1,200 patients whose policies were dropped after they incurred high medical expenses.

Finding strength in faith, Anne Hjelle is determined to recover after she was mauled while mountain biking in a wilderness park. Hjelle recounts attack A young woman walked into a restaurant last week and sat close enough to get a good look at Anne Hjelle's face. A mountain lion had torn off the left side four years before, leaving it hanging by a flap of skin. Six surgeries hadn't camouflaged the scars.

Federal agencies are accused of ignoring the dangers of bisphenol A, which some experts think may harm the development of children's brains. Congress on Wednesday waded into an escalating scientific dispute over a controversial ingredient in plastic products that some think may harm the development of children's brains and interfere with human reproduction.

Dr. Murray E. Jarvik, the UCLA pharmacologist who showed that nicotine was the addictive factor in tobacco and invented the nicotine patch for smokers trying to quit, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica.

Charles Meyer Goldstein, a dentist and USC faculty member who advocated community service and organized free dental clinics that treat thousands of poor people each year, died Sunday at his home in Brentwood from complications of multiple organ failure. He was 87.

A 17-year-old Perry, Ga. high school senior who died Sunday was Georgia's second meningococcal disease death this year. Public health officials did not identify the girl, who died at Perry Hospital. Roughly 30 friends and family members who may have been in close contact with her have been given antibiotics as a disease-preventing measure, said Jennifer Jones, spokeswoman for Georgia's North Central Health District.

Health officials are investigating 184 reports of illness in people who took dietary supplements containing toxic levels of the mineral selenium. Last month, federal officials warned consumers about harmful doses of selenium — a mineral considered healthful in small amounts — in plastic bottles of liquid "Total Body Formula" and "Total Body Mega Formula," distributed by Total Body Essential Nutrition Inc. of Woodstock. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found up to 200 times the label level of selenium. The agency also found 17 times the label level of chromium, but the agency has not yet concluded if those levels are toxic.

CHICAGO — Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method. That number is far higher than earlier estimates and bolsters concerns already heightened by well publicized cases like the accidental drug overdose of actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins last November. "These data and the Dennis Quaid episode are telling us that ... these kinds of errors and experiencing harm as a result of your health care is much more common than people believe. It's very concerning," said Dr. Charles Homer of the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality. His group helped develop the detection tool used in the study.