The Food and Drug Administration decision will allow the company to promote Crestor to millions of U.S. patients who traditionally have not been candidates for

Researchers found that people who most closely followed a Mediterranean-like diet were 36 percent less likely to have areas of brain damage

A study in Maine shows that unused or expired medications that are thrown into the trash are showing up in landfill water, potentially putting aquatic life at

Teva Pharmaceutical said the settlement would end the claims involving federal contributions to Medicaid programs, and claims by three states

Weight Watchers said Jenny Craig's claim was not supported by fact or science.

An estimated 70 million Americans have been vaccinated against swine flu through a government vaccination campaign that started in October

Is the U.S. swine flu epidemic over? Federal health officials won't go so far as to say that, but on Friday they reported for the fourth week in a row that no

Called a prostitute by conservative talk show hosts, a Louisiana Democrat on Thursday defended a deal she cut for her Hurricane Katrina-ravaged state in the

The Zackery Lystedt Brain Project also will promote greater public awareness of head injuries

At least five companies are believed to have resold milk products tainted with melamine that were supposed to have been destroyed in the earlier sweep

Public questions about the quality of mental health care provided by a private contractor at the base were raised last year by the September firing of Dr.

The resurfacing of tainted milk products in China highlights the challenges of policing the food supply in a country where close ties between local authorities

Federal and state programs will pay slightly more than half the tab for health care purchased in the United States by 2012, says a report by Medicare number

Under the new service, mothers-to-be who text "BABY" to 511411 will receive weekly text messages, timed to their due date or their baby's birth date

The new research suggests that standard tests may overlook patients who have some consciousness