PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the...

Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they...

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. (AP) — Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the...

NEW YORK (AP) — Pfizer Inc. said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved Geodon as a part of a combination maintenance treatment for bipolar disorder in adults.

The new...

NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL Players Association wants the league to remove the co-chairman of the league's committee on concussions because the union believes he is biased.

Dr. Ira...

ATLANTA (AP) — The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High...

Republicans assail health care bill, Democrats set Saturday night test vote on Senate measure

WASHINGTON (AP) — Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.

Yet even though cheap...

LONDON (AP) — Eating disorder experts criticized Kate Moss on Thursday after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on Web sites that encourage girls to avoid...

LONDON (AP) — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers,...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.

Road...

SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.

"I thought, 'It's a nodule, I'm a guy, I don't...

LONDON (AP) — Andrew Lloyd Webber has been readmitted to hospital after developing an infection following surgery for prostate cancer.

A statement on the composer's Web site...

SPRING LAKE, N.J. (AP) — Former Kiss drummer Peter Criss is speaking out about his recent bout with breast cancer.

The rocker known as "Catman" is encouraging other men to get...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.

"We think of it as...

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota judge has closed the case of a teenager forced by the court to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.

Brown County Judge John Rodenberg...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could mean the Army is starting to make...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Union Pacific Railroad will have to defend itself from a lawsuit by a former employee who says the company should have protected her better from getting West Nile...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Richard Martin keeps a rearview mirror on his desk to prevent co-workers from startling him in his cubicle. The walls are papered with sticky notes to...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine.

Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer says the federal government is notifying 10 companies in a crackdown on phony remedies to the swine flu now on the market.

The Federal Trade...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A day after Poniard Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its drug candidate picoplatin failed to improve survival for patients with lung cancer, the company reported...