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New York City’s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.
The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investigation.
Employers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.
Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.
For Dr. Ruth Bergren and her colleagues taking care of HIV patients in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina presented the ultimate test of the doctor-patient relationship.
Dr. Ruth Berggren was among a team of nurses and doctors that stayed with patients during Hurricane Katrina.
Are drugs appropriate for toddlers to take when they exhibit troubled behavior?
The annual Kaiser survey of employer health benefits shows employers managed to keep costs down; but employees' premiums went up.
Many people who suffer from migraines believe fluorescent lights are the culprit.
A move of some of 186 chimpanzees to a research center in Texas has spurred outrage among animal rights advocates, primate experts and politicians.
Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle charges that it illegally promoted and sold Botox for unapproved uses.
Buyers in secondhand stores are concerned about bedbugs coming along with the clothing or furniture.
A discovery by Paul Greengard, an 84-year-old scientist and Nobel winner, has illuminated a new direction.
Allergan agreed to pay $600 million to settle criminal and civil allegations that it had marketed Botox for medical uses, like pain and headache, not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Can exaggerated anxiety about falling -- even if tests show your risk to be low -- increase the probability that you'll actually fall?
That question, which has prompted countless academic studies, debates and inter-running-partner squabbles, is now at the heart of a notable new study.
A Bristol-Myers drug shows promise in treating a heart rhythm disorder, and others combat postsurgical clotting and deep vein thrombosis.
A popular dietary supplement called SAMe may help depressed patients who don't respond to prescription antidepressant treatment, a new study shows.
Prepare these packets at home, then toss them on the grill at a cookout.
Why muscles wither with age is captivating a growing number of scientists, drug and food companies and aging baby boomers.
Leading drug makes are developing new anticoagulant drugs to prevent stroke and systemic blood clots in people with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat disorder.
The Army’s new training program was created to help address one of the most pressing issues facing the military today: overweight and unfit recruits.
The inspections, the F.D.A. said, found barns infested with flies, maggots and rodents, as well as overflowing manure pits.
A new study suggests several reasons for the nation’s rising Caesarean section rate.
The drugs are aimed at people who have a higher than normal risk for clotting or stroke, like patients undergoing hip replacement surgery or those with an irregular heartbeat.
Doctors say frequent headaches and migraines are among the most common childhood health complaints, yet the problem gets surprisingly little attention from the medical community.
