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Fears of a medical system that favors the wealthy grow as some doctors reject Affordable Care Act insurance. Insurers need to balance the need to offer consumers low rates and paying doctors enough.

In Cleveland, a public hospital may be succeeding at the seemingly impossible: saving money while making patients healthier. It's doing so by giving patients personalized attention.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Healthy breast cells may be able to reinvent themselves -- some have the flexibility to change after they are mature -- which leads…

“The FDA’s extended comment period on how to regulate electronic cigarettes ended this week. But there's still no time table for issuing final…

The Food and Drug Administration now requires all food manufacturers to be in compliance with a labeling standard for gluten-free food. Advocates for people with celiac disease say it's about time.

In 2012, the nation’s poison control center logged more than 10,000 calls about mixed-up units of measure related to a medication.

Ebola is spreading faster than efforts to stop it in West Africa, the World Health Organization says. Places hardest hit don't have enough doctors, nurses and medical equipment to contain the virus.

No doctor would refuse to prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins to patients because they're overweight. But despite guidelines, some doctors aren't offering preventive drugs to those at risk for HIV.

Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University School of Medicine discusses the work of Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who died from Ebola.

A depression treatment based on magnetic fields, not medications, appears to help many patients who don’t respond to other options.But no one really knows…