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By Stem Cell Program, Children's Hospital Boston By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY Health officials Wednesday gave the green light to federally funded research on 13 human embryonic stem cell lines, the first approved since the Bush administration imposed ...

Recognition of World AIDS Day in Columbia concluded with a candlelight vigil and band performances downtown Tuesday. The evening's events were planned by Columbia's Regional AIDS Interfaith Network, an organization that provides ...

Free swine flu shots will be available to all Dallas County residents starting next week. County health officials decided Tuesday that it was time to expand the vaccination effort beyond the high-risk groups ...

Unless Congress and the president act soon, many unemployed workers and their dependents may lose their health insurance if a federal subsidy to help them pay for the coverage isn't extended.

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- The overall health of the US population has improved over the past three decades, largely because people have quit smoking in droves, but a new study suggests those gains might soon be wiped out if ...

Two swine flu patients in Maryland and one in Virginia were hospitalized with a form of the virus resistant to a commonly used medicine, prompting infectious disease specialists to call for renewed caution even as the intensity of the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Healthcare reforms working their way through the US Congress will help slow rising medical costs but more will have to be done in coming years, a top Obama administration official said on Wednesday.

By THE EDITORS James Estrin/The New York Times Home health care aides have become lifelines for many elderly people. Under the health care bills currently being debated in Congress, more than 30 million uninsured Americans would gain coverage.

MARIETTA, Ohio - Police said whoever donated a water jug to a charity in southeast Ohio probably didn't mean to be so generous.

By Robert Priedt, HealthDay "What we have found is that no region of the brain is spared from lead exposure. Distinct areas of the brain are affected differently," study author Kim Cecil, an imaging scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA has warned that its antidepressant Norpramin should be given with extreme caution to patients with a history of certain heart problems, the US Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday.

Hereditary angioedema drug Kalbitor was approved by regulators on Wednesday, sending stock of manufacturer Dyax (DYAX) soaring to a year-long high.

A national push to avert delays in heart attack treatment has sharply increased the percentage of people who get prompt care, a study shows.

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that lonely people attract fellow "lonelies" and influence others to feel lonely, too.

Dec 2 (Reuters) - CytRx Corp (CYTR.O) said US health regulators lifted a clinical hold on its experimental oral drug for the treatment of Lou Gehrig's disease after accepting the company's revised trial protocol, sending its shares up as much as 16 ...

WASHINGTON - A third of the most popular children's toys in the United States this year contain harmful chemicals including lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury, a US consumer group said Wednesday.