News bites: Health sector picks its deficit-cutting poison

{mosads}A top Virginia health official tasked with regulating abortion clinics is married to an anti-abortion rights lobbyist, the Huffington Post reports.

A federal judge struck down key sections of a new Texas law that requires women to receive a fetal sonogram and hear about its results at least 24 hours before an abortion, the Austin American-Statesman reports.

The National Labor Relations Board has overturned a Bush-era decision that could make it easier for healthcare workers to unionize, the Huffington Post reports.

UnitedHealth is buying a major California physician group, The Wall Street Journal reports, “the latest example of how the lines between insurance companies and health-care providers are blurring.”

The government is weighing new protections for captive chimpanzees that could prevent them from being used in medical experiments, The Washington Post reports.

A class action lawsuit against Monsanto over alleged pollution of a West Virginia town’s drinking water begins next week, reports the Charleston Gazette.