Drugs taken by millions of Americans to help strengthen weak bones may raise the risk of esophageal cancer, new research suggests.

WASHINGTON -- Workers are paying 14% more for their employer-sponsored plans than they did last year as a bigger chunk of healthcare costs shifted from employers to employees, according to a ...

By Anne Ryan, USA TODAY By Anne Ryan, USA TODAY By Anne Ryan, USA TODAY By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY PEARL CITY, Ill. - There is nothing small scale about Pearl Valley Eggs, deep in the heart of Illinois farm country.

There are still about 4.7 million uninsured American children who are eligible for CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) or Medicaid and are not enrolled, says a new report published in the journal Health Affairs.

An experimental anti-malaria drug that appears to be more powerful than current treatments may soon be ready for human clinical trials, according to scientists.

A two-year-old Indonesian boy who smoked about 40 cigarettes a day has kicked the habit after intensive therapy. Ardi Rizal, who lives in the South Sumatran fishing village of Musi Banyuasin, appeared on the internet in May, drawing attention to ...

Actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones attend the The 2009 Women of the Year hosted by Glamour Magazine at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 9, 2009, in New York.

Should a nonprofit cancer research center partner with the maker of an alcoholic beverage to raise money for breast cancer? The more wine consumed, the more funds for fighting cancer, goes the logic.

All news about the cost of care and the business of medicine from hospitals,' doctors' and patients' perspectives. What are the lawmakers, and other state and federal officials, up to when it comes to health reform laws?

A consumer group has found that just over half of California health care workers received flu shots during the 2008-2009 flu season.

Indiana's attorney general says a pharmaceutical company that makes Botox will pay the state nearly $636000 in a civil settlement.

THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental test that can diagnose tuberculosis in less than two hours, making only one doctor visit necessary before treatment starts, is being hailed as a potentially significant advance ...

by AP Enlarge AP Dr. Richard Edwards, left, is greeted by Dr. Joseph Kutz who shakes one of Edwards' new hands during a news conference at Jewish Hospital in Louisville Thursday, Sept.

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Aqua Bounty Technologies Inc.'s genetically engineered salmon are safe to eat and unlikely to harm the environment, said US regulators weighing whether to approve the first gene-altered animal for human ...

September 3, 2010 - A new study finds that mentally stimulating activities may "square the curve" of cognitive decline by significantly delaying the onset of dementia, although the reprieve from symptoms may be followed by more rapid deterioration ...

Note that if causality is eventually determined, it would have major implications as it would be possible that many other groups suffering from PTSD would also be at risk for dementia.

By Devin Wagner, Argus Leader By Jeff Martin, USA TODAY SIOUX FALLS, SD - Cancer has ravaged several of Ann Aberson's relatives, so she doesn't have a problem with her two teenage daughters wearing bracelets to raise awareness of breast cancer.

In a year when news about Alzheimer's disease seems to whipsaw between encouraging and disheartening, a new discovery by an 84-year-old scientist has illuminated a new direction.

Sept. 2, 2010 - Men with insomnia have a fourfold higher death rate than normal sleepers who get at least 6 hours sleep a night, a 14-year study finds.