Posted: 5:52 AM The Food and Drug Administration has approved a first-of-a-kind breast cancer medication that targets tumor cells while sparing healthy ones.

Updated: 6:29 AM The Oregon Democrat leaves for Washington, D.C., on Friday to pitch his plan that changes the way doctors and hospitals are paid and improves health care coordination for low income residents.

Posted: 6:07 AM The vaccine is proving only 9 percent effective in those 65 and older against the harsh strain of the flu that is predominant this season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

Posted: 6:05 AM The United Nations rejected a claim for damages on behalf of more than 5,000 Haitian cholera victims and their families on Thursday, citing diplomatic immunity.

Posted: 6:03 AM In a statement issued at the end of a regular meeting in the western city of Trier, the German Bishops Conference said Catholic hospitals still can't provide drugs that would lead to the death of an embryo.

Posted: 1:01 PM Games and Things hosting Game on Against Cancer March1, 2013. Come play your favorite celebrity.

Posted: 6:35 AM On an average day, U.S. adults get roughly 11 percent of their calories from fast food, a government study shows.

Posted: 6:32 AM That's the advice from leading medical groups who came up dozens of tests and treatments that physicians too often prescribe when they shouldn't.

Posted: 6:27 AM Printing out body parts? Cornell University researchers showed it's possible by creating a replacement ear using a 3-D printer and injections of living cells

Posted: 6:26 AM It's one part of the new health care law that seemed clear: free coverage for preventive care under most insurance plans. Only it didn't turn out that way.

Posted: 6:24 AM An attorney representing a family bent out of shape over a public school yoga program in the beach city of Encinitas filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop the district-wide classes.

Posted: 6:23 AM Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines.

Posted: 6:15 AM Women who had the robotic operations were slightly less likely to spend more than two days in the hospital, but hospital stays were shorter than that for most women

Posted: 6:12 AM It allows users to run through fictional outbreaks and make decisions: Do you quarantine the village? Talk to people who are sick?

Posted: 6:11 AM Battle's lawsuit claims a note was posted on an assignment clipboard reading "No African American nurse to take care of baby."

Posted: 6:57 AM Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham says the coronavirus victim was an outpatient being treated for "a long-term, complex unrelated health problem" who had a compromised immune system.

Posted: 5:46 AM Hip replacements are slightly more likely to fail in women than in men, according to one of the largest studies of its kind in U.S. patients.

Updated: 8:16 AM Teaching parents to switch channels from violent shows to educational TV can improve preschoolers' behavior, even without getting them to watch less, a study found.

Posted: 5:49 AM The United Nations says an outbreak of hepatitis E has killed 111 refugees in camps in South Sudan since July, and has become endemic in the region.

Posted: 5:47 AM In an afternoon teleconference with state counterparts, administration officials said the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan will stop taking new applications. People already in the plan will not lose coverage.

Posted: 5:45 AM The nation is about evenly split between states that decided they want a say in running new insurance markets and states that are defaulting to federal control because they don't want to participate in "Obamacare."

Posted: 6:23 AM The findings, published online Thursday in the journal Science, add to the mounting evidence that minuscule amounts of medicines in rivers and streams can alter the biology and behavior of fish

Posted: 5:55 AM Sixteen people who smoked synthetic marijuana were hospitalized with kidney problems last year in six states. All recovered but five of them needed dialysis.

Posted: 9:04 PM The Food and Drug Administration says U.S. marshals have seized illegal dietary supplements from a Florida company because some may contain a dangerous pharmaceutical ingredient.

Updated: 6:35 AM About 1 in 9 younger women have used the morning-after pill after sex, according to the first government report to focus on emergency contraception since its approval 15 years ago.