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, July 4 (UPI) -- Police searched the Delaware River off Philadelphia Saturday for an 11-year-old boy believed drowned with his uncle in a boating accident.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

The Food and Drug Administration will require two smoking-cessation drugs, Chantix and Zyban, to carry the agency's strongest safety warning over side effects that include depression and suicidal thoughts.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Skin cancer rates for younger Canadians are climbing, however the number of dermatologists available is set to decline over the next several years.

The Fourth of July holiday and grilling season is underway. But before you start planning your annual cook-out, it's important that to know how to grill healthy foods.