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Medicare costs too much, but how to rein it in?
President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney agree there has to be a limit to how much seniors pay for Medicare, but they're worlds apart ...
Correction: Hepatitis C Outbreak story
In a story Aug. 15 about how a hepatitis C outbreak could boost momentum for federal legislation requiring some types of medical workers to meet ...
CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
All baby boomers should get a one-time blood test to learn if they have the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, U.S. health officials said Thursday.
Townsfolk sickened after Peru toxic spill
It began with a loud pop like a tire bursting. A toxic cocktail of copper concentrate laced with a periodic-table's mix of volatile compounds then ...
Japan's nuclear leaks sparked butterfly mutations
Radiation that leaked from the Fukushima nuclear plant following last year's tsunami caused mutations in some butterflies — including dented eyes and ...
Undoing Obama Medicare cuts may backfire on Romney
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's new promise to restore the Medicare cuts made by President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law could ...
AP source: Michael J. Fox returning to series TV
Michael J. Fox is planning a return to series TV, more than a decade after he left to concentrate on fighting Parkinson's disease. The actor, who ...
Rev. Sun Myung Moon hospitalized with pneumonia
Unification Church founder the Rev. Sun Myung Moon is being treated in an intensive-care unit at a hospital in Seoul for pneumonia. The Rev.
2 additional anthrax cases identified in Colorado
Two more cows have died from anthrax exposure in northeast Colorado, expanding the first outbreak of the disease in the state in 31 years to three ...
Boehner to House GOP: Play offense on Medicare
Speaker John Boehner is urging rank-and-file House Republicans to go on offense over Medicare as Democrats argue that the GOP presidential ticket of ...
New ad campaign portrays caregivers' call for help
A woman grips her car's steering wheel and silently lets out a scream as her frail father, on oxygen, coughs beside her and her kids play around in ...
J&J removing harsh chemicals from products by 2015
Johnson & Johnson plans to remove trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing and other dangerous chemicals from nearly all its adult toiletries and ...
The other Paul Ryan plan: $800B in Medicaid cuts
There's another Paul Ryan plan for health care, a fundamental change in caring for the poor and disabled that would affect many more people than the ...
Australian court OKs logo ban on cigarette packs
Australia's highest court upheld the world's toughest law on cigarette promotion Wednesday, prohibiting tobacco company logos on cigarette packs that ...
Debate joined on Medicare; Romney, Obama go at it
Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama in person and in TV advertising Tuesday of cutting Medicare "to pay for Obamacare," launching a strong ...
Med tech's arrest shows flaws in system
Radiology technician David Kwiatkowski was a few weeks into a temporary job at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center-Presbyterian in 2008 when ...
New toilet technology after 150 years of waste
These aren't your typical loos. One uses microwave energy to transform human waste into electricity. Another captures urine and uses it for flushing.
Family: Texas shootout gunman had mental illness
In the months leading up to Monday's shootout near Texas A&M University that killed three, gunman Thomas Alton Caffall III had cut off contact with ...
Some below poverty line don't qualify for Medicaid
Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought she'd be able ...
Feds want Missouri to set up drug tracking program
While heroin, methamphetamine and even synthetic drugs tend to get much of the attention, the nation's drug czar says prescription drug abuse is far ...
Blood type might be a clue to heart disease risk
Here's another reason to know your blood type — it might be a clue to your risk of heart disease. People who have blood types A, B, or AB have a ...
Correction: AstraZeneca-Pfizer-Nexium
In a story Aug. 13 about drugmaker Pfizer Inc. buying the rights to sell a nonprescription version of heartburn drug Nexium from maker AstraZeneca ...
Medical marijuana ads under attack in Denver
Free joints! Cheap weed! Come on down! Marijuana advertising in Denver can be shockingly aggressive, with psychedelic billboards and sign wavers ...
Mayo Clinic: Jackson has bipolar disorder
U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., a Chicago Democrat who took a hushed medical leave two months ago, is being treated for bipolar disorder, the Mayo Clinic ...
Ryan's Medicare plan would be tricky to pull off
The idea behind Paul Ryan's Medicare plan is to slow growing costs and keep the program more affordable for the long haul. But it's all in the details