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UK government wants hospitals to expand overseas
The British government said Tuesday that it wants the country's state-funded hospitals to help support themselves by setting up profit-making branches ...
Lunch workers study how to get kids to eat healthy
There will be more whole grains on school lunch menus this year, along with a wider selection of fruits and vegetables and other healthy options.
House calls a growing trend among veterinarians
Two kids, two pets, two jobs, too much. That's how it felt to Erin McCarthy when it came time to drag her cat and puppy to the veterinarian. So she ...
Early heart death raises disease risk for family
Paul Ryan works out and watches his diet, but a new study shows that clean living can only go so far to help people like the vice presidential ...
Team of doctors set up secret Syria field hospital
An international team of doctors turned a villa under construction in Syria into a secret field hospital, spending two months treating wounded who ...
Diana Nyad ends Cuba-to-Fla. swim bid on 4th day
Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt in nearly 35 years to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her dream of setting a record thwarted by ...
NBC: Michael J. Fox will return to series TV
NBC has made it official: Michael J. Fox is coming back to series TV more than a decade after he left to concentrate on fighting Parkinson's disease.
Review: 'Sleepwalk' is crowd-pleasing comedy
Much of the best comedy derives from personal pain, and comic turned filmmaker Mike Birbiglia deftly transposes his stand-up routine to the big screen ...
Israel chief rabbi in German circumcision talks
Israel's chief rabbi is in Germany for talks aimed at smoothing over a controversy over the legality of circumcising young boys. German lawmakers have ...
Israeli clowns pioneer new medical treatments
Doctors in Israel are beginning to believe in the power of clowning around. Over the last few years, Israeli clowns have been popping into hospital ...
Missouri congressman fights to save GOP Senate bid
Rep. Todd Akin fought to salvage his Senate campaign Monday, even as members of his own party turned against him and a key source of campaign funding ...
Mammograms and dense breasts _ questions abound
More women are getting the word that they may have breasts too dense for mammograms to give a good picture. What's not so clear is what to make of ...
Cholera emergency declared in Sierra Leone
An outbreak of cholera in West Africa has infected more than 13,000 people and killed at least 258 people in Sierra Leone and Guinea, authorities said ...
Insurer Aetna to buy Coventry in $5.7 billion deal
Aetna, one of the nation's biggest health insurers, claimed a bigger stake in the burgeoning market for government-funded coverage Monday when it ...
First lady hosts kids at lunchtime 'state dinner'
At the first ever White House "kids state dinner," first lady Michelle Obama told America's top junior chefs Monday that the dishes they created are ...
New coupons aim to keep people off generic drugs
If brand-name prescription medicines cost you as little as generic pills, which would you choose? A few drugmakers are betting Americans will stick ...
Romney, Ryan to discuss Medicare with NH voters
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are ready to face New Hampshire voters and answer their questions, especially about the Republican plan for Medicare that ...
Bill would expand fertility coverage for veterans
The roadside bomb that exploded outside Andrew Robinson's Humvee in Iraq six years ago broke the Marine staff sergeant's neck and left him without use ...
Dogs give emotional boost to sick kids in Quito
Every Wednesday, Lancelot and Juci scamper into a special mission: nudging and pawing youngsters into smiles at the only hospital in Ecuador's capital ...
Medicare in focus as Obama, Ryan trade charges
Who loves Medicare more? President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's running mate vied for that distinction Saturday as Medicare became the latest ...
Romney wants running mate to play it safe, for now
Mitt Romney wants running mate Paul Ryan to play it safe. Ryan, the nation's most controversial budget architect, is often described as the ...
Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio de Janeiro
Business was brisk in the Mandela shantytown on a recent night. In the glow of a weak light bulb, customers pawed through packets of powdered cocaine ...
Trying to see into the heart of the GOP candidate
Long before Mitt Romney became the millionaire candidate from Massachusetts, he was his father's son, weeding the garden in the upscale suburb of ...
Florida highway offers clues to presidential race
Beyond the theme park billboards that promise worlds of fantasy and adventure there is reality along this road that ripples across the state, small ...
Indiana melons linked to US salmonella outbreak
Health officials in Indiana and Kentucky say they are investigating farms, distributors and retailers after an outbreak of salmonella that has killed ...