Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care -- and to try
A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the
A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health
The weaker of two conjoined twins separated in a landmark surgery in Australia has woken up from a coma  and blown a raspberry at her guardian.
Less than half of Americans age 65 and over use the Internet, but a new study indicates that it could be beneficial to their health if they they start going
The Chambers County Health Department has received to date only 2.5 percent of its requested 30,000 doses of the H1N1 Vaccine.
The Texas health department is making a flu vaccine locator available on its Web site — TexasFlu.org — to help people find the vaccines for both seasonal flu
Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday.

