Posted: 7:16 AM A new study published June 17 in JAMA Internal Medicine showed that eating red meat over time was associated with a higher chance of developing the most common form of diabetes.

Posted: 7:07 AM Fewer U.S. adults are smoking, a new government report says. Last year, about 18 percent of adults participating in a national health survey described themselves as current smokers.

Posted: 7:05 AM Health officials in Mumbai are investigating reports that Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his wife know the sex of a baby they are having through a surrogate mother.

Posted: 7:02 AM A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season

Posted: 6:27 AM The abortion wars return to Congress in a big way with House legislation to ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.

Posted: 6:12 AM There's good news for most companies that provide health benefits for their employees: America's slowdown in medical costs may be turning into a trend, rather than a mere pause.

Updated: 5:51 AM Franklin County is trying to become the first county in the state to require prescriptions for pseudoephedrine-based cold medicines as a way to fight methamphetamine production.

Posted: 5:51 AM Mountain State Health Alliance in Johnson City has been recognized by AARP as one of the 50 best employers in the nation for workers over 50.

Posted: 1:16 PM The first known instance of the more aggressive bees -- sometimes called "killer bees"-- in Tennessee came last year

Updated: 7:05 AM By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.

Posted: 7:47 AM The move shows the growing willingness to do transplants to enhance a patient's life rather than to save it as donated hearts, livers and other organs have done in the past.

Posted: 12:21 PM Britain will start regulating electronic cigarettes and other products containing nicotine as medicines, according to the country's top regulator.

Updated: 12:22 PM A 10-year-old girl with cystic fibrosis was recovering from a transplant of adult lungs after a judge's ruling expanded her options for lifesaving surgery.

Posted: 6:26 AM Officials are warning Tennessee's seniors about a scam involving recorded phone calls promising free or low cost personal emergency or medical alert systems.

Posted: 6:21 AM The Pharmacy Board said in a news release that the new rules will improve safeguards for public health while also ensuring that drugs in short supply will be available.

Posted: 11:25 AM Technology lets you text, talk on the phone, and send e-mails while driving. It sounds like the thing busy people need to get through the day.

Posted: 10:13 AM A state appeals court panel had few sweet words Tuesday for a city health regulation that would fight diabetes and obesity by setting a size limit on sugary beverages sold in restaurants.

Posted: 6:17 AM The Justice Department on Monday notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman it will submit a plan for compliance. If he approves it, the department will drop its appeal of his April ruling.

Updated: 12:15 PM The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose efforts to qualify for a transplant drew public debate over how organ donation should be done is getting a new lung.

Posted: 8:12 AM The hardship of hunger abounds amid the stone homes and teepee-like huts in the mountains along Haiti's southern coast.

Posted: 4:22 AM Federal health officials say they have found bacteria and fungus in drug vials from a Tennessee specialty pharmacy that recalled all of its injectable medicines last month.

Posted: 4:21 AM Arena Pharmaceuticals says its weight loss drug Belviq will be available to U.S. patients beginning next week, nearly a year after the drug was officially approved by federal regulators.

Posted: 12:18 PM A dying Pennsylvania girl has been placed on the adult waiting list for donated lungs amid a court fight over the nation's transplant rules with help from a judge who granted another petition Thursday from a boy

Posted: 12:16 PM Over and over, the nation debates the fairness of transplant policies, from Mickey Mantle's liver in the 1990s to people today who cut their wait times by moving to another city where the list is shorter.

Posted: 12:14 PM A majority on a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Thursday to modify or remove measures that currently limit patient access to GlaxoSmithKline's Avandia.