HEALTH LAW

Proponents say the proposal should ease worries for both patients and their families about what’s to come.

The outbreak, which began in West Africa in the spring of 2014, “continues to constitute a public health emergency of international concern,”

A smoking ban goes into effect in New Orleans on Wednesday.

Nurse Kaci Hickox, who returned to the U.S. after treating patients in Sierra Leone, has described her quarantine experience as "frightening."

Many airlines don't want to fly to West Africa, but experts say that actually is helping to spread Ebola, not contain it.

The 18-year-old continues to recover from surgery complications that left her in a coma for several months.

A new survey suggests that Republicans are convincing voters to reject Obama's reform even when they like much of what is in it, such as allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26.

The Supreme Court met Friday -- in a regular, private conference -- to vote on the health care reform law case, but their ruling won't be released until June. Here's a look at the concerns potential swing votes Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Anthony Kennedy expressed during oral arguments.

A leading group of U.S. doctors is trying to tackle the costly problem of excessive medical testing, hoping to avoid more government intervention in how they practice.

The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to repeal a provision of President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul setting up a home-care program for the elderly and disabled that regulators said was unworkable.

A January poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation said more Americans believe the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the Affordable Care Act's insurance mandate, but will base their decisions on ideology, instead of legal analysis.

The drum beat to limit medical care for the elderly grows louder. President Barack Obama's health law reduces future funding for Medicare by over $500 billion in the next decade and shifts most of those resources to fund a vast expansion of Medicaid. It's like robbing grandma to spread the wealth. To bamboozle the public, advocates for limiting health care spending on the elderly are distorting science to make their case.

Murray will likely face a civil wrongful death suit

Study shows that medical malpractice suits are rarely successful.

McDonald's Corp said on Tuesday it will soon tweak its children's Happy Meals, reducing the french fry portion by more than half and automatically adding apples to the popular meals, after coming under pressure from consumer groups to provide healthier fare.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius on Friday announced three efforts she says will help states lower their share of costs for approximately nine million people who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

The Obama administration pushed harder for its strict deadline of January 2013 to certify state health insurance exchanges and proposed that each exchange - showing progress - receive conditional approval, in becoming fully operational by January 2014.

Opponents of a measure to ban circumcision in San Francisco, before it takes to the ballot in November, filed a lawsuit Wednesday on the grounds that state law prohibits local governments from restricting medical procedures.

The biggest difference between President Barack Obama and Republican plans on spending and over the next decade or so is in healthcare, although smaller, but significant spending differences remain in other categories. The U.S. debt, currently at $14.3 billion will grow by trillions of dollars under budget plans from both sides.

Health care company Allergan said the FDA has approved the wider use of its Lap-Band weight-loss system.

An American woman in her 60s made history after she gave birth to her daughter's baby. Kristine Casey, 61, acted as a surrogate mother for her 35-year old daughter Sara Connell, who had been trying for years to conceive.