The question will be debated fiercely in coming months as President Obama and some Democratic lawmakers push for the creation of a government-run plan to compete with private insurance companies for the business of nearly 50 million ...

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 ...

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner with Dr. Juan Manzur, right, the health minister, at a hospital in Buenos Aires. By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO RIO DE JANEIRO - The death toll from swine flu in Argentina continued to rise as President Cristina ...

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.

WASHINGTON -- Clipping away at a $590 million deficit, Rhode Island in April raised its taxes on cigarettes by $1 to $3.46 a pack -- the highest rate in the country.

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.

While storekeepers were frantically pulling E. coli-tainted cookie dough and beef from their shelves last month, scientists rolled out the country's first cattle vaccine to snuff out the potentially deadly bacteria.

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.

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

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.

Creve Coeur-based Precision Foods Inc. is among food distributors across the US that are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn.

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.