MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer Researchers are reporting another disappointment for efforts to cure infection with the AIDS virus. Six patients given blood-cell transplants similar...
(New York Times) – We all know that exercise can make us fitter and reduce our risk for illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. But...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Don’t want to be confronted with the number of calories in that margarita or craft beer? Then avoid...
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first system that could be used by blood banks to destroy viruses and bacteria in...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Trying to head off a new round of consumer headaches with President Barack Obama’s health care law, the insurance...
LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic cigarettes have surpassed traditional smoking in popularity among teens, the government’s annual drug use survey finds. Even...
Orange, Calif. (New York Times) — Nick Meza, 18, recently had another five-day round of chemotherapy at the outpatient clinic here at Children’s Hospital of Orange County. Usually...
MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Monday approved President Barack Obama’s nomination of Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve...
RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s push to cover America’s uninsured faces another big test Monday. This time, it’s not only how...
(New York Times) – The Commonwealth Fund has been publishing surveys comparing health care in industrialized countries since 1998, a continuing report card in which...
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...
