Posted: 6:51 AM The makers of a popular carbonated alcoholic drink guzzled on college campuses are going to be changing the look of its Four Loko cans to settle the government's charges of deceptive marketing.
Posted: 6:23 AM There may be more behind the story of why Pope Benedict XVI decided to leave a job normally held for life. But the pontiff made it about age.
Posted: 6:21 AM Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals won't be able to tell you, at least not right away — if at all.
Updated: 6:20 AM Salt has quietly been slipping out of dozens of the most familiar foods in brand-name America, from Butterball turkeys to Uncle Ben's flavored rice dishes to Goya canned beans.
Posted: 6:17 AM British officials have found the world's 10th known case of a new coronavirus, a mysterious disease related to SARS and first identified last year.
Posted: 5:31 AM University spokesman Tim Ellsworth says about 300 students have reported suffering a stomach sickness. Ellsworth says most of the ill students come from the university's residential population of 1,100.
Updated: 7:41 AM School-based counseling treatments showed the most promise, but there's no hard proof that anxiety drugs or other medication work and far more research is needed to provide solid answers, say the authors.
Updated: 7:40 AM The number of states reporting intense or widespread illnesses dropped again last week, and in a few states there was very little flu going around, U.S. health officials said Friday.
Posted: 1:32 PM The Watson supercomputer is graduating from its medical residency and is being offered commercially to doctors and health insurance companies, IBM said Friday.
Posted: 12:21 PM Cambodia's Health Ministry and the World Health Organization announced Friday that the girl had a history of contact with poultry in her village in southeastern Takeo province.
Updated: 5:19 PM The sisters were only 2 and 7 when they were diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetics and now they are trying to raise enough money to buy a life-saving diabetic alert dog.
Posted: 8:14 AM Deep-fried foods may be causing trouble in the Deep South. People whose diets are heavy on them and sugary drinks like sweet tea and soda were more likely to suffer a stroke, a new study finds.
Posted: 8:13 AM That's more than those with other health problems such as heart attacks or cancer, and it suggests that depression after stroke is more serious than many had realized.
Posted: 8:14 AM The New Mexico Medical Board is expected to decide whether to revoke the license of or otherwise discipline Dr. Shelley Sella, one of the few doctors in the country who still openly performs third-term abortions
Posted: 6:27 AM Health officials are looking into whether cases like the dozen found in Philadelphia might be one reason the nation just had its worst year for whooping cough in six decades.
Updated: 6:40 AM Red isn't just a trend at The Heart Truth runway show, it's a tradition: The Red Dress Collection, modeled by celebrities to draw awareness to heart disease, has become the kick off to New York Fashion Week.
Posted: 6:24 AM The Food and Drug Administration is warning U.S. doctors about another counterfeit version of the cancer drug Avastin, the third case involving the best-selling Roche drug in the past year.
Updated: 5:31 AM Many families have reusable bags because they're handy and with so many uses, they're green. The problem, they may not be clean.
Posted: 6:49 AM With the rule set to take effect March 12, beverage industry, restaurant and other business groups have asked a judge to put it on hold at least until there's a ruling on their lawsuit seeking to block it altogether.
Posted: 6:48 AM Commonly used steroid shots may worsen tennis elbow in the long run and increase chances that the painful condition will reappear, a small study found.
Posted: 5:40 AM Massachusetts officials have ordered 11 pharmacies to completely or partially shut down after a series of inspections prompted by a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak.
Updated: 6:32 AM It was a startling assertion that seemed an about-face from church doctrine: A Catholic hospital arguing in a Colorado court that twin fetuses that died in its care were not, under state law, human beings.
Posted: 6:21 AM The world's most advanced tuberculosis vaccine failed to protect babies against the infectious disease, according to a new study in South Africa.
Posted: 12:55 PM Republican bills before both chambers of the General Assembly would prohibit the governor from pursuing an expansion to TennCare, the state's expanded Medicaid program.
Posted: 6:40 AM It really does get better for gay and bisexual teens when it comes to being bullied, although young gay men have it worse than their lesbian peers, according to the first long-term scientific evidence
