HARTFORD, Conn.— Seven states recently sued the federal government over a new rule that expands protections for doctors and other health care workers who refuse to participate in abortions and other medical procedures because of religious or moral o
WASHINGTON — It happens all the time: Filling out that clipboard at the doctor’s office, you can’t remember what cancer killed Aunt Sally or when Dad had his heart attack.
Your personal health outcome is directly dependent upon how you use your hand. Your hand is directed by your behavior. Indeed, what your hand puts into your mouth is the major determinant of whether your risk for the development of acute or chronic diseas
WASHINGTON–Adolescents aren’t just big kids, and too many start falling through cracks in the health care system when they pass the stage of preschool shots and summer camp checkups - what a major new report calls missed opportunities to shape
TRENTON, N.J.—Gainesville’s first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.
NEW ORLEANS–Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms. Now more are getting openheart surgery, with remarkable survival rates ri
BERLIN–An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said recently.
FRESNO, Calif. Lowering air pollution in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley would save more lives annually than ending all motor vehicle fatalities in the two regions, according to a new study.
A popular antidepressant plus three months of psychotherapy dramatically helped children with anxiety disorders, the most common psychiatric illnesses in kids, the biggest study of its kind found. The research also offers comfort to parents worried about
