Posted: 6:37 AM An outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 15 people in northeastern Congo and the local communities are quickly learning how frighteningly deadly the disease is, and how to prevent its spread.
Posted: 6:36 AM A New Hampshire attorney says a client contracted hepatitis C from a traveling hospital worker two years earlier than has been previously alleged he began spreading the disease.
Posted: 6:12 AM Scientists are growing ears, bone and skin in the lab, and doctors are planning more face transplants and other extreme plastic surgeries.
Posted: 8:03 AM Mammograms aimed at finding breast cancer might actually raise the chances of developing it in young women whose genes put them at higher risk for the disease.
Posted: 7:49 AM The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste,
Posted: 7:48 AM Jeremy Hunt only been in his job since Tuesday, but already some experts fret that his controversial views and general knack for inviting scandal could sow confusion in an already fragile health system.
Posted: 8:01 AM "Because they are colorful and squishy, they are attractive to children," warns the American Association of Poison Control Centers. "They can look like candy or something fun to play with."
Posted: 6:51 AM The parents of 7-year-old Sierra Jane Downing thought she had the flu when she felt sick days after camping in southwest Colorado.
Posted: 4:10 PM The East Tennessee Medical Group in Alcoa opened their month long Flu Shot Clinic Tuesday to get a head start on the upcoming flu season.
Updated: 6:04 PM Stanford University doctors dug through reams of research to find out — and concluded there's little evidence that going organic is much healthier, citing only a few differences involving pesticides and antibiotics.
Posted: 10:00 AM Ernest Addo of Austell, Ga., is charged with unlawful practice of medicine and obtaining goods under false pretense, authorities said.
Posted: 9:57 AM Nina Musselman had no trouble finding a family doctor when she retired to rural Oregon nine years ago to be closer to her children.
Posted: 9:54 AM The German manufacturer of a notorious drug that caused thousands of babies to be born with shortened arms and legs, or no limbs at all, issued its first ever apology Friday
Posted: 9:38 AM The woman, whose identity was not released, was from central Ohio's Madison County and died this week following an illness she contracted after having contact with hogs at the Ross County Fair.
Posted: 9:36 AM Up to 10,000 people who were guests in certain lodging cabins at Yosemite National Park might have been exposed to a deadly mouse-borne virus, park officials confirmed.
Posted: 9:33 AM The University of Toledo Medical Center apologized and put two nurses and an administrator of surgical services on paid leave without public explanation following the Aug. 10 error.
Posted: 9:28 AM Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. is recalling more than 31,000 units of a chemotherapy drug after discovering one vial was overfilled, putting patients at risk of an overdose.
Updated: 4:35 PM Federal investigators probing a slaughterhouse after an undercover video showed inhumane treatment of cows said Friday that there is no evidence that sick animals entered the food supply.
Updated: 4:39 PM A Knoxville teen loving gift gives a Jackson woman a second chance.
Posted: 4:10 PM A self-styled healer has been indicted by a Swiss court on charges that he intentionally infected 16 people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in cases going back more than a decade, authorities said Thursday.
Posted: 12:38 PM The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 46 states are reporting more cases of pertussis this year than the year before.
Posted: 9:37 AM The retail operation is working with Five Star Vending, the machine vendor, and Coca-Cola, which supplies the drink machines. More vitamin water and zero-calorie beverages will be available.
Posted: 1:42 PM The email alerts sent Tuesday came after a second person died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which can be carried in the urine, saliva and feces of infected deer mice.
Posted: 11:14 AM The nation's most influential pediatricians group says the health benefits of circumcision in newborn boys outweigh any risks and insurance companies should pay for it.
Posted: 5:06 PM Health officials say at least some of the salmonella-contaminated cantaloupe that has sickened nearly 200 in 21 states came from a southwestern Indiana farm.
