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.

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.

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.

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 ...

As childhood obesity numbers continue to swell to button-popping proportions, scientists predicted the "perfect storm" that has brewed the overweight epidemic facing America's children today.

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.

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.

The "dog days" of summer are already here with high temperatures by 9 am and afternoon thunderstorms. As you take precautions to protect yourself and your family from the oppressive heat, don't forget to consider you pet's comfort and ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

Discovery Laboratories said late Wednesday that its lead drug candidate, a treatment for respiratory distress syndrome in premature infants called Surfaxin, faces “a significant hurdle for approval.

July 1, 2009 -- The FDA warns that bizarre behavior -- including suicide -- is seen in people taking the stop-smoking drugs Chantix and Zyban.

The American Cancer Society's "Relay For Life" is three weeks from tonight here in Sioux Falls. The relay starts Friday night, July 24th at 6 PM and runs until 6 AM Saturday morning.

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.