CHICAGO (AP) — Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new...

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Doctors say that a new type of heart pump greatly improves survival of people with severe heart failure. It could become the first one of these devices to be widely used as a permanent treatment.

NEW YORK (AP) — For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A team of 16 surgeons and nurses successfully concluded 25 hours of delicate surgery Tuesday to separate twin Bangladeshi girls who had been joined at their heads, sharing blood vessels and brain tissue.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most women should wait until age 50 to get mammograms and then have one every two years, a government task force said Monday in a major reversal that conflicts with the American Cancer Society's long-standing recommendation of...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A new study raises fresh concerns about Zetia and its cousin, Vytorin — drugs that are still taken by millions of Americans to lower cholesterol, despite questions raised last year about how well they work.

NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of American women will face tough choices about abortion coverage if restrictions in the House health care bill become law, both sides in the abortion debate agree.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Blue-eyed, with a round face and soft blonde hair, 3-year-old Alyssa Chance smiles sweetly at the adults around her, rewarding their attention with an affectionate look in her eyes.

CHICAGO (AP) — Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections and birth defects.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object.

Acupuncture, not pain pills that "make me loopy," is what Cynde Durnford-Branecki wants for her aching back, and a treatment costs her only a $20 copayment.

CHICAGO (AP) — For millions of Americans the rule is simple: If you don't come to work, you don't get paid.

Future doctors and nurses are learning about acupuncture and herbs along with anatomy and physiology at a growing number of medical schools. It's another example of how alternative medicine has become mainstream.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mention swine flu to a young child, and odds are pretty good you'll get a blank stare.

NEW YORK (AP) — There is such a bounty of botanical-based beauty products, you might think they grow on trees.

A new study raises fresh safety concerns about widely used anemia medicines, finding that the drug Aranesp nearly doubled the risk of stroke in people with diabetes and chronic kidney problems who are not yet sick enough to need dialysis.

CHICAGO (AP) — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.

SIAYA, Kenya (AP) — A mother watched with dread as a nurse inserted a tube in her baby's head. Blood streamed into the anemic 4-month-old who already has malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills a million African children every year.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A single dose of the swine flu vaccine works well for almost all pregnant women, but young children will still need two doses for best results, federal health officials said Monday.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The doctor doesn't look like much of a crusader, bent over the frail frame of 90-year-old Alberta Scott.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one in an occasional Associated Press series examining the use and potential risks of alternative medicine.

LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of people on any given day will die, develop the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their swine flu vaccination shot was to blame, a new study says.

HAVANA (AP) — The World Health Organization plans to distribute 200 million doses of swine flu vaccine to 100 developing countries.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Florida man accused of killing his son-in-law in New Jersey is arguing that he was unable to commit the crime because he was too fat.

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Move over, it's Saturday night at Club Bounce and people are bouncing onto the dance floor in a big, big way.