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State health officer Mary Currier denies St. Dominic Health Systems' request to build a 71-bed hospital just north of Madison.

Health officials waited 2 weeks to alert public to egg danger

State and federal health agencies identified an Iowa egg company as a likely source of illnesses at least two weeks before the firm launched a massive egg recall Aug. 13 and the public got its first hint of a growing national salmonella outbreak, health officials said in interviews with USA TODAY.

Health Net Inc. Director Thomas Farley dies

Health insurer Health Net Inc. said Thursday that board member Thomas Farley died earlier in the week at the age of 75.