JULIE WATSON, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — California officials are battling the worst whooping cough epidemic to hit the state in seven decades as a...
KRISTIN J. BENDER, Associated Press A year ago, 13-year-old Jahi McMath underwent a tonsillectomy and tissue removal at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, to treat sleep...
PAT EATON-ROBB, Associated Press NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Anxiety, depression, guilt, sleeplessness, marital strife, drug and alcohol abuse — two years after the massacre at Sandy...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. has received approval for an updated version of its Gardasil vaccine that protects against an additional five...
KILEY ARMSTRONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Doctors, nurses and others fighting Ebola through “tireless acts of courage and mercy” have been named Time’s 2014...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is taking some whole grains off the school lunch line. A massive year-end spending bill released Tuesday...
Kelli Kennedy, ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — When Olivia Papa signed up for a new health plan last year, her insurance company assigned her to...
(Business Standard) – Smoking can cause loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells, which may put male smokers at a greater risk of cancer,...
(ABC News) – When the House voted to approve the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act this week, lawmakers including Speaker John Boehner rejoiced that the move...
(CNN) — “Blood, sweat, and tears” on the football pitch used to mean a very different thing in Sierra Leone. In a country where Ebola is spreading...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Pregnant women are about to get easier-to-understand information on how safe their medicine is for baby. The Food...
TOM MURPHY, AP Business Writer Millions of Medicare Advantage customers are fast approaching a deadline for a task they’d rather avoid: Researching and then settling on...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. health care spending grew by the slowest rate in more than a half-century last year, government analysts said...
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Tuesday released a draft of long-awaited federal guidelines on circumcision, saying medical evidence...
BETHESDA, Md. (WJZ) — A big breakthrough in the fight against Ebola right here in Maryland. A possible vaccine gets “promising results” in a clinical...
(BBC) – Following a Mediterranean diet might be a recipe for a long life because it appears to keep people genetically younger, say US researchers....
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The nation’s second-largest health insurer has changed its corporate name to Anthem from Wellpoint to reflect a label familiar to consumers shopping...
ALEXANDRA OLSON, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Global efforts to provide antiretroviral therapy to children with HIV is lagging sharply compared to adults, according to...
Lily Rothman, TIME MAGAZINE (TIME)—Dec. 1 has been World AIDS Day since 1988 — but though the awareness and activism around the diseases has changed...
(American Live Wire) – What if there were vaccines that didn’t use needles? Sounds too good to be true? Well, that’s exactly what a new measles...
(Medical News Today) – The result marks the first major advance in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer for 30 years, note the researchers, who report their findings...
(USA Today) – We all know what it’s like to get a lousy or short night of sleep: Tempers shorten, snacks become more tempting, attention...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In an ongoing effort to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemic physicians, healthcare workers and human rights...
(Huffington Post) – It is not a secret that Americans overeat on Thanksgiving. We typically consume more calories during this one meal than we ingest...
(Fox News) – Some half a million cases of cancer a year are due to people being overweight or obese, and the problem is particularly acute...
