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There was a bat flying around the stands at the Aug. 17 game between the Baltimore Ravens and Detroit Lions, and now, the good folks at the Maryland Department of Health are concerned about the spread of rabies.

The unusual weather patterns that have caused heat waves, droughts and wildfires this summer also have brought some good news: a record low number of tornadoes.

Water shortages due to ongoing drought affect the U.S. power supply as power plants become overheated and shut down or run at lower capacity, analysts say.

Emergency relief officials and doctors were deployed to flood-devastated communities in The Philippines yesterday to prevent outbreaks of disease as the death toll jumped to 85.

The six-county district formed after Hurricane Ike to protect the upper Texas Gulf Coast from a massive storm surge has stalled for lack of money, but new efforts have emerged to avert a disastrous inundation.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the first set of penalties on hospitals for having too many patients readmitted 30 days or less after their initial hospital stay.

Medical suppliers, home-care providers, and hospitals that are delinquent on their taxes could face changes in Medicaid reimbursement, thanks to a U.S. government study that showed widespread tax evasion by health-care providers in three states.

About 60 percent of public companies say cyber-liability insurance is not a part of their response plan for a cyber attack.

Although companies are on track to pay as much as $8 billion this year to resolve charges of defrauding the government, questions remain about the relative lack of charges against executives.

A typhoon slammed into eastern China on Wednesday, the country's third in a week, killing at least three people and causing more than $1.5 billion in damage, state media said.

A push to build two new natural gas power plants in the San Diego area has turned into a contentious forum on the value of California¿s alternative-energy remedies.

Enterprise risk management and governance, risk, and compliance are not interchangeable. Why? The reasons lie at the core of the practice of risk management.

In 2011 alone, more than 14 natural disasters in the U.S. cost an estimated $1 billion in damages, along with injuries and loss of lives.

How can companies stick to their principles without causing offense?

The Treasury Department sold another $$ billion-plus of AIG stock, but the selling isn't done yet, and may actually be speeding up.