WASHINGTON (AP) — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce is out indefinitely after an MRI exam on Friday surprisingly revealed a bulging disk in his neck.

The Giants...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb...

ATLANTA (AP) — 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.

The cases...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Chiropractors get a lift in the Senate health care bill, thanks to a senator from the state practitioners consider the birthplace of their...

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...

ATLANTA (AP) — Health officials say four people in North Carolina have tested positive for a type of swine flu that's resistant to the drug Tamiflu.

It's the first cluster of that...

WASHINGTON (AP) — First mammograms. Now — in an apparent coincidence — Pap smears.

New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in...

A look at key issues in the health care debate:

THE ISSUE: What can the government do to get doctors and hospitals to deliver cheaper medical services?

THE POLITICS: Medicare's...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — This city did not wait for Washington's health care overhaul. Most uninsured adults here are already reaping the benefits of a government-run health care...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A nonprofit group's campaign to hold free medical clinics for the uninsured in three states is turning into a not-so-subtle jab at moderate Democrats to support...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House voted Thursday to add more than $200 billion to the deficit to prevent steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors, a move Republicans...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They call it the "Botax."

The White House and Senate Democrats have turned to a proposal to tax breast implants, tummy tucks, wrinkle-smoothing injections...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California's public university system on Thursday agreed to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that was partially closed in 2007 after deadly lapses in...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Centuries before X-rays, CAT scans and ultrasounds gave doctors a view inside the human body, the best images medical students often had were illustrations drawn by...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — A member of the independent panel whose new mammogram recommendations have led to confusion defended the task force's report, saying Thursday that it was based on the...

A comparison of the health care bills before Congress:

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The Senate Democratic bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act):

WHO'S COVERED: About 94 percent of...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More Americans support creation of a new government-run health insurance plan to compete with the private insurance market, a new Associated Press poll finds, but...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An aid worker who helped bring formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins to Australia where doctors managed to separate them spoke of her relief Wednesday over their...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, a miniature heart pump shows the potential to become a widely used, permanent treatment for many older people with severe...

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...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seniors would pay $49 billion in higher premiums over the next decade as a result of legislation headed for a House vote that raises fees for doctors treating Medicare...

ORLANDO, Florida, EE. UU. (AP) — Un nuevo tipo de bomba cardíaca mejora la supervivencia de pacientes con fallas cardíacas severas, dijeron médicos el martes. Podría ser el primer...

NEW YORK (AP) — For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.

Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure...

NEW YORK (AP) — "How extraordinary," Catherine Givings observes. "It looks like a farming tool. Where do you put it?"

Indeed.

Sarah Ruhl — MacArthur...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his wife, Cleo, it's a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer's get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Ravens safety Haruki Nakamura broke his right ankle on the opening kickoff of Monday night's game at Cleveland.

Nakamura, a Cleveland native, was grabbing the...

BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defended their involvement in the health care debate, saying Monday that church leaders...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the cost, Mr. President.

Americans are worried about hidden costs in the fine print of health care overhaul legislation, an Associated Press...

Obama prods China to take global role on big issues — sharing 'burden of leadership' with US

BEIJING (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Monday the world is urgently watching...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some employers are pressuring workers not to report illnesses and injuries, just one problem that has led to widespread underreporting of workplace safety issues,...

CHICAGO (AP) — Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients...