A West Michigan doctor's study on a popular breast cancer treatment is being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Several states and U.S. territories are weighing in on a lawsuit over proposed graphic cigarette warning labels that include a sewn-up corpse of a smoker and a

Chennel King, a nurse from Norwalk, Conn., went Christmas shopping the other day with a new holiday companion: a budget.

Conservative interest groups and Republican lawmakers want Justice Elena Kagan off the health care case. Liberals and Democrats in Congress say it's Justice

The White House appeared to waffle Monday on the fate of a financially troubled long-term care program in President Barack Obama's health overhaul law, as

Canada's Supreme Court is allowing the only legal drug injection facility in North America to stay open. Its founders call it a safe and humane space for drug

However, tobacco use still remains the single largest preventable cause of disease, disability and death in the U.S., according to a CDC statement

Florida health officials say an 80-year-old woman has died after contracting the swine flu

How and when should you talk to your child about sexual abuse? That's a question raised by two separate cases of criminal sexual conduct allegedly perpetrated

The law allows schools to stock and use shots to help children having severe allergic reactions by giving them an epinephrine injection

Orexigen Therapeutics Inc. said it is scrapping its bid for U.S. approval of its new weight loss drug because of "unprecedented" demands by regulators on

Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places — the United States

The 7-year-old girl plugged her ears and shook her head as her mother told a Red Cross social worker about their brush with death.

The sudden death last month of Fennville High School basketball player Wes Leonard brought doctors and educators together Monday night to talk about sudden

Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has unveiled a proposed license plate design to benefit organ donation efforts.