Health News

September 22, 2017

Montana set to take over deadly asbestos cleanup site

The cleanup of a northwest Montana community where health professionals say hundreds of people have been killed by asbestos ...

September 22, 2017

The Latest: Bangladesh PM accuses Myanmar of laying mines

The latest on the U.N. General Assembly meeting (all times local): 8:20 p.m. Bangladesh's prime minister is accusing Myanmar ...

September 22, 2017

Sleep apnea went undiagnosed in engineers in 2 train crashes

The engineers of two commuter trains that slammed into New York City-area stations in the last year, killing one person and ...

September 21, 2017

The Latest: Group wants Congress to revisit Medicaid changes

The Latest on the Republican effort to end the Obama-era health overhaul and replace it with a new law (all times local): ...

September 21, 2017

Baby whose mother chose giving birth over chemo has died

A tiny preemie whose gravely ill mother had hoped to save her by shunning chemotherapy during pregnancy has died, a relative ...

September 21, 2017

Superbug's spread to Vietnam threatens malaria control

Vietnam's main malaria treatment is failing at an alarming rate because of a highly drug-resistant superbug that has spread ...

September 21, 2017

FDA warns on mixing opioid addiction treatments, other meds

The Food and Drug Administration issued new warnings Wednesday about the dangers of combining medication for opioid addiction ...

September 21, 2017

Ivanka Trump discusses her postpartum depression

Ivanka Trump says she experienced postpartum depression after the births of each of her three children. Trump, in an ...

Bill Cassidy, Sen. Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell

September 20, 2017

Study: Most states would take a hit from GOP health bill

Most states would take a stiff budgetary hit if the latest Senate GOP health care bill becomes law, according to an analysis ...

September 20, 2017

Lawsuit challenges law that only doctors perform abortions

The American Civil Liberties Union and Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday that challenges a Maine ...

September 20, 2017

The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me?

Dennis Lyon was a genetic train wreck. Cancer was ravaging his liver, lungs, bones and brain, and tests showed so many tumor ...

September 20, 2017

Devils' Boyle diagnosed with cancer, expects to keep playing

Brian Boyle hopes to play hockey again soon after being diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a type of bone-marrow cancer ...

September 20, 2017

Hepatitis A outbreak seen in Los Angeles County

Public health authorities on Tuesday declared an outbreak of the highly contagious liver disease hepatitis A in Los Angeles ...

September 20, 2017

Lawyers trade jabs as meningitis outbreak murder trial opens

An attorney for a Massachusetts pharmacist charged in a deadly meningitis outbreak urged jurors Tuesday not to be swayed by ...

September 19, 2017

Predators target NFL concussion victims, lawyers say

Lawyers for former NFL players now eligible for payments under the league's $1 billion concussion settlement said Tuesday ...

September 19, 2017

FDA OKs Glaxo's inhaler, first one to combine 3 medicines

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first inhaler combining three medicines to ease breathing in patients with ...

September 19, 2017

Veteran who fought library attacker among 18 Carnegie Heroes

An Army veteran who fended off a mentally ill man who tried to attack a chess class the veteran was teaching at an Illinois ...

September 19, 2017

Judge: NFL concussion victims hit with 'deceptive practices'

A federal judge overseeing the NFL's $1 billion concussion settlement with former players said she's concerned about ...

September 19, 2017

Christie: Drugmakers to work on nonaddictive pain medication

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that pharmaceutical companies agreed to work on nonaddictive pain medications and ...