Health News

A clinical trial for a cancer pill shows promise in the fight against prostate cancer.

Whether to save umbilical cord blood in private banks or donate to public repositories is increasingly a crucial decision new parents must make.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A growing number of older U.S. children are being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, while diagnoses among younger children have held steady, government researchers said on Wednesday.

The report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found ADHD diagnoses among children aged 12 to 17 increased by an average of 4 percent a year from 1997 to 2006. The researchers found no significant change in the percentage of children aged 6 to 11 diagnosed with ADHD over the same period.

A second mosquito in Franklin County tested positive for West Nile Virus, the Franklin County Board of Health announced on Wednesday.

Caption: Golden Globe-nominated American actress Heather Locklear arrives at the Ivy restaurant Los Angeles, California .... Actress HEATHER LOCKLEAR has left rehab and returned to her home after receiving ...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.

Truck and bus drivers throughout the United States hold commercial licenses even though they are at risk for medical problems like seizures and bouts of unconsciousness.

A Virginia salon offers a popular Asian spa treatment, in which so-called "doctor fish" nibble away at the feet's dead skin.

Schering-Plough Corp provided this undated file photo of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin a product of a joint venture between pharmaceutical companies Merck & Co., and Schering-Plough Corp.

Around 60,000 people in the UK with rheumatoid arthritis are being denied access to potentially life-changing drugs, charities said.

About 16,000 Ohioans are stuck on a Medicaid backlog and officials say they're trying to fix that.

Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has the human form of mad cow disease.

Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state's director of communicable disease control, confirmed Sunday to The Associated Press that tests are being done to see if the patient has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and whether it's the variant attributed to mad cow.

There have only been three cases of the human form of mad cow disease reported in the United States in the last several years, and officials say it's extremely unlikely the patient in Cape Cod Hospital has the disease.

Mike Oeschger gives his wife Pam a kiss during an interview at Fort Campbell, Ky., April 15, 2008.

Child Care Resources, a non-profit agency in northern Ontario, will be facing a $2.5-million deficit by the end of the year if the province doesn't deliver promised funds that would cover the cost of providing ...

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous program.

Researchers say they have grown in mice the kind of functioning heart blood vessels that cardiac surgeons create with bypass operations.

LONDON - Customers of bars that play loud music drink more quickly and in fewer gulps, French researchers said on Friday.Their study, published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, found ...

The county Health Care Agency reported the cases Friday, one day after reporting its first two known human cases this year of the mosquito-borne virus.

The VA is planning a pilot, three-month-long suicide prevention public service campaign in Washington, D.C., underscoring the mental health struggles faced by vets.

After weeks of delay, the Senate voted Wednesday to approve the PEPFAR bill, sending $48 billion of AIDS relief to Africa over the next five years.