Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is recovering from a heart transplant he underwent on Saturday morning. The 71-year-old politician received a heart from an anonymous donor and is now in the intensive-care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.
This week, a dog was found abandoned by a passing motorist on Mooney Hill Road in Kent, N.Y. Little did that dog know, but his life was going to be completely turned around.
While the full bill won't be in effect until 2014, the health care overhaul has already benefited millions of Americans, according to the Obama administration.
Dissolvable tobacco use may reduce the risks that come from smoking, but could lead to more overall tobacco use, according to a report by an FDA panel
China faces a shortage of transplant organs and has long relied on organs from condemned prisoners, apparently with their prior consent.
The U.S. Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the unacceptable practice of considering treatment costs in making a diagnosis, Army Secretary John McHugh told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday.
Singer Whitney Houston’s official cause of death was announced on Thursday, over one month after the 48-year-old was found dead in the bath tub of a Beverly Hilton Hotel bathroom. The Los Angeles coroner stated that Houston died of accidental drowning, with contributing factors of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine in her system.
The liberal advocacy group has produced a political ad that features women repeating some of the controversial statements about reproductive health from conservative leaders such as Rick Santorum and Rush Limbaugh.
Brazil will introduce tightened controls on sales of breast implants including lot-by-lot testing, the government said on Thursday, after thousands of defective French implants were sold in the country and across Latin America.
Tuberculosis reached its lowest levels in the United States since 1953, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
Following on the heels of school districts, many national supermarkets have agreed to stop purchasing ground beef that contains the pink slime filler. While federal regulators say that the pink slime or lean, finely textured beef, meets food safety standards, the filler is unappetizing to consumers. The recent backlash has prompted some supermarkets from continuing to purchase and sell products containing the pink slime. Is your supermarket one of them?
Researchers found a potential cause for baldness that could lead to an effective drug in five years, according to a new study.
Congressional estimates of the cost of obesity are far too low, according to a new report.
Whitney Houston is the latest celebrity whose addiction to prescription pills ended in an untimely demise. On Tuesday, reps for Mike The Situation Sorrentino quickly refuted claims from TMZ that the reality star had checked into rehab, but last night the Situation took to his Facebook page to set the record straight.
Women who drink up to seven glasses of wine or beer a week are slightly less likely to suffer a stroke than those who steer clear of alcohol, according to a U.S. study that covered thousands of women for nearly 30 years.
Medicines are meant for saving lives, but sometimes a casual handling proves them to be fatal.
Patients with a large difference in blood pressure between arms is are at a higher risk of dying early, according to a new study.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading global pharmaceutical companies, has offered their support to the 2012 March for Babies event and the prematurity campaign program of the March of Dimes, a leading nonprofit organization for pregnancy and baby health.
Bob Carey has been taking photos of himself in nothing but a pink tutu for nine years in places from the Grand Canyon to a corn field to a motel bed.
Americans travelling to the Olympics could be exposed to measles and should be vaccinated before they go, the CDC warned.
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceutical's Natazia (estradiol valerate and estradiol valerate/dienogest) tablets have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as an oral contraceptive (OC) for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) that is not caused by any diagnosed condition of the uterus.
A U.S. law requiring large graphic health warnings on cigarette packaging and advertising does not violate the free speech rights of tobacco companies, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday.
According to a new report by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), a serious safety violation has occurred at the Second Avenue subway. Construction at the Second Avenue subway has over three times the permitted amount of toxic dust levels. Testing done Nov. 9 at East 69th and Second Avenue found the high levels of silica, hazardous dust particles that are a result of the drilling construction. The latest information was released last week by Assemblyman Micah Kellner...
Female Health Company, the designer of the only FDA-approved FC2 Female Condom, has announced the launch of a free, interactive online training program for health care providers to raise product awareness and the usage.
A bone marrow transplant reversed Rett syndrome, an autism-like disorder, in mice, according to a new study.
The Center for Reproductive Medicine (CRM), one of the leading IVF & Infertility Treatment Centers in Orlando and Central Florida, declared its second successful baby delivery through a new oocyte freezing ( egg freezing) technique called vitrification.
Poison and child are not two words that anybody would like to see going together. The very word poison itself is enough to make parents worried.
Synthetic marijuana use is rising, and more and more teens are experiencing side effects so serious they need to go to the emergency room.
On New Year's Eve 2004, after months of losing weight and suffering fevers, night sweats and shortness of breath, student Anna Watterson was taken into hospital coughing up blood.
Kids with one type of leukemia are living longer than they used to, most likely thanks to new drug combinations that mean fewer patients are relapsing after a first round of treatment.
