LONDON (AP) - As President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the American health care system, the role of government is at the heart of the debate.

Authorities on Saturday announced a massive heroin bust in the Bronx, where dealers were moving millions of dollars in dope inside Build-A-Bear dolls.

CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.

Philadelphia marine police and the New Jersey State police and the US Coast Guard continued to drag the Delaware River downstream from the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge Saturday for the 11-year-old nephew of a North Philadelphia man, who drowned while ...

WASHINGTON - To warm words from President Obama, the Democratic leaders of the Senate health committee unveiled a revised plan Thursday to provide health coverage to nearly all Americans.

DENVER, Colorado (CNN) -- A former hospital employee may have exposed hundreds, or even thousands, of surgical patients to hepatitis C after taking their fentanyl injections and replacing them with used syringes filled with saline ...

July 1, 2009 -- It's official, again. For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi is still the nation's heaviest state -- ground zero for obesity in the US That's according to a new report, F as in Fat 2009, issued today by the nonprofit ...

TORONTO (DOW JONES)--Loblaw Cos. (LT) has recalled two dozen of its President's Choice-branded beef products due to possible E. coli contamination.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn.

A police officer was dragged about 50 feet through a parking lot early Saturday when a car suddenly took off in reverse as the officer was trying to prevent the driver from escaping.

PROVIDENCE - A strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s is on the loose in Rhode Island and is damaging potato and tomato crops.

Federal safety regulators have announced two large recalls of children's products, including one involving four million water toys, for serious safety hazards on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday weekend ...

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Multaq (dronedarone) tablets have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to promote a normal heart rhythm in people with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter.

Independence Day can be a fun filled day for families, but it isn't always quite as fun for pets. All of that noise, heat and confusion can be overwhelming for your four legged friend.

Resident Shellie Williams is a mother of four, and said her three youngest daughters loved the time they spent last summer at the Salvation Army's Long Point Camp on Seneca Lake in Penn Yan.

By THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY, For THE NEWS Participants in the 14th annual Relay For Life of Dunn County on June 19-20 at UW-Stout helped the event reach an impressive milestone.

July 2, 2009 -- Sunscreens are improving, but three of five brand-name products either don't protect the skin from sun damage sufficiently, contain hazardous chemicals, or both, according to a report by the watchdog organization ...

By itself and taken properly, Tylenol is considered by doctors a reliable, safe pain medication. But people often don't realize they are getting extra doses of Tylenol in cold medicine, said Dr.

About 75000 Canadians will be diagnosed with non-malignant skin cancer this year, according to the Canadian Dermatology Association.