SAVANNAH Ga. (AP) A Georgia graduate student fighting a rare flesh-eating infection has been looking at her ravaged hands and asking about the damage all without tears her father said Wednesday. What Aimee Copeland still doesn't know is that doctors…

WASHINGTON May 16 (UPI) -- An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test officials said. The OraSure in-home human immunodeficiency virus test allows a person to use a mouth swab…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of silicone breast implants. But breast augmentation began long before the spring of 1962. Substances were injected into women's chests researchers say since at least the late 1800s. They included paraffin animal…

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius revealed a national plan to fight Alzheimer s disease yesterday which was initially called for by the January 2011 National Alzheimer s Project Act. The plan includes five goals including developing…

(AP) ATLANTA - For the first time in 20 years U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children. The new standard announced Wednesday means that hundreds of thousands more youngsters could be diagnosed with high levels…

Given the emphasis both parties are placing on health care as a defining political issue their contrasting approaches to the government-run health insurance program serving 49 million people are certain to command considerable attention in both the…

WASHINGTON Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs…

A video featuring cancer-stricken children their nurses doctors and parents lip-synching and dancing to the popular Kelly Clarkson song "Stronger" has become an online sensation. Clarkson in her own video message to the children at Seattle Children…

(CBS News) - The first effective vaccine for whooping cough was developed in 1940. Before that the respiratory infection killed thousands each year -- and it may be making a comeback. Hundreds of cases are being reported in nine states. Washington State…

Cathy Hutchinson hasn't been able to move her body for the past 15 years. But thanks to a brain implant from a Brown University team of neuroscientists she's recently been able to pick up a bottle of coffee on her own by controlling a robotic arm…