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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 ...

Patrons of the Purple Tribe nightclub in Tianjin, China, can earn money for taking an HIV test, part of a Gates Foundation initiative that has drawn criticism.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Republicans argued on Wednesday that recommendations advising against routine mammograms for women in their 40s could be used to ration healthcare under reform legislation before Congress, a charge Democrats denied.

WASHINGTON - In a day of desultory debate on sweeping health care legislation, senators appealed to two potent political constituencies on Tuesday, with Democrats seeking additional medical benefits for women and ...

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.

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- About 40 years of health improvements from declining numbers of smokers may be undermined because too many US adults are obese, researchers said.

Dec 2, 2009 (CIDRAP News) - The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-resistant pandemic H1N1 cases in hospital settings suggest that treatment doses may need to be increased in immunocompromised patients who have flu ...

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.

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.

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 ...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- A nationwide program to get faster treatment for people with the most severe kind of heart attack has dramatically reduced the time between hospital arrival and lifesaving angioplasty.

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

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

LOS ANGELES - Shares of biopharmaceutical company cytrx Corp. rose in morning trading Wednesday after the Food and Drug Administration lifted a nearly two-year suspension on development of arimoclomol as a treatment for Lou Gehrig's disease.

Before you check off the children on your holiday list, an Ann Arbor environmental group says many of the toys on store shelves contain dangerous toxic chemicals.