Health

Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced Tuesday by the ...
UK may allow IVF for older women, same-sex couples
A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, ...
Poland to educate Euro 2012 fans on safe sex
Polish health officials say they will distribute free condoms to hundreds of thousands of fans attending Euro 2012 as part of a safe sex campaign.
Brandon Cronenberg is a chip off the bloody block
You wait years for a new Cronenberg movie at Cannes, and then two come along at once. Macabre master David Cronenberg's "Cosmopolis" screens at the ...
Catholic dioceses, colleges sue over Obama mandate
Roman Catholic leaders opened a new front against the Obama administration mandate that employers provide workers birth control coverage, filing ...
French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy
In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more ...
Issue of death row inmate's treatment spurs debate
A condemned killer's fight to receive surgery for agonizing hip pain has pushed Kentucky officials into an uncomfortable debate over security and ...
Study: US clears drugs faster than Europe, Canada
Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that ...
UN: High blood pressure, glucose a global problem
A quarter of those 25 or older now have high blood pressure worldwide, and almost one in 10 has worrying levels of glucose in their blood. The World ...
UK experts: Tax soda to fight obesity epidemic
Three health experts at Oxford University are calling for a hefty tax on soda — as much as 20 percent — which they say could help trim waistlines in ...
Britain bedeviled by binge drinking
The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks.
French trial opens in diabetes-diet drug scandal
Lawyers for a French pharmaceutical group suspected in the deaths of at least 500 people argued Monday that a trial against their client should be ...
Romanian baby born with stunted intestines dies
A Romanian baby born with virtually no intestines who confounded doctors by tenaciously clinging to life and captured international attention and ...
Argentine Senate approves 'dignified death' law
Argentina's senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a "dignified death" law giving terminally ill patients and their families more power to make ...
Argentina makes sex-change surgery a legal right
Adults who want sex-change surgery or hormone therapy in Argentina will be able to get it as part of their public or private health care plans under ...
Tymoshenko ends hunger strike in Ukraine
Yulia Tymoshenko ended a nearly three-week long hunger strike Wednesday as the imprisoned former Ukrainian prime minister was moved from jail to a ...
California may ban gay teen 'conversion' therapy
A first-of-its-kind ban on a controversial form of psychotherapy aimed at making gay people straight is speeding through the California legislature.
US agency favors first drug for HIV prevention
U.S. drug regulators on Tuesday affirmed landmark study results showing that a popular HIV-fighting pill can also help healthy people avoid ...
US unit favors first drug for HIV prevention
U.S. drug regulators are affirming that a landmark study showing that a popular HIV-fighting pill already on the market can also help people avoid ...
Two-thirds of US adults obese or overweight
Two-thirds of U.S. adults and almost a third of children are either overweight or obese, and progress to stop the epidemic has been too slow, the ...
No end to obesity epidemic, 20-year forecast shows
More bad news about Americans' waistlines: The obesity epidemic may be slowing, but the number of obese adults is likely to keep going up. Today, just ...
Suicide kits vendor, 92, sentenced on tax charges
A 92-year-old Southern California woman who acknowledged selling kits intended to help people commit suicide has been sentenced to five years ...
20-year forecast shows no end to obesity epidemic
More bad news about Americans' waistlines: They are only going to get bigger. Already, about a third of people are obese. By 2030, it is estimated 42 ...
Georgia's patriarch baptizes 400 babies
The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church presided over the baptism of hundreds of babies in a Tbilisi cathedral on Sunday as part of an effort ...
Fire at Peru rehab center kills 14
A predawn fire swept through a drug rehabilitation center in a town on Lima's outskirts Saturday, killing 14 people in the second blaze in Peru this ...