Colorado Rockies minor leaguer Mike Jacobs became the first North American professional sports league athlete to be suspended for testing positive for human growth hormone, Major League Baseball (MLB) said Thursday.
The number of adults and children getting CT scans to diagnose appendicitis has shot up since the 1990s, a new study finds -- raising questions about whether the high-tech X-rays are being overused.
Mid- and small-capitalization stocks sank for a third straight day on Thursday in a wide selloff on continued fears about the global economy's growth prospects.
A Kentucky man is suing a doctor for amputating his penis without consent during what was supposed to be a routine circumcision to relieve inflammation.
Shares of large gold mining companies took it in the neck Thursday, falling along with the broader stock market even as the price of gold notched a fresh record.
While no deal has been reached yet, Verizon workers left the sidewalks of the telecom company's headquarters and took their strike to the homes of Verizon's top executives, Chairman Ivan Seidenberg and Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam, this week.
It was a sweet court victory for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg when a federal judge dismissed claims against his namesake company Bloomberg LP for discriminating against pregnant women and new mothers.
A government agency that helped invent the Internet wants to award an organization $500,000 in seed money to begin studying what it would take to send people to the stars.
Barclays fired one of its star commodities traders yesterday, marking what could be the end of an era.
The United States for the first time Thursday explicitly called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and imposed new economic sanctions likely to be followed up by the European Union.
HPQ shares are down about 6.1 percent as of 3:15 p.m. (New York time).
A Mexican lawyer for American drug company Baxter International Inc. was caught on tape bribing a expert testifying against the pharmaceutical manufacturer in an ongoing lawsuit.
A giant 18-pound lobster has been saved from the dinner table and is now on display in Coney Island at the New York Aquarium.
Verizon reportedly wants to outsource the jobs from the Forest Hills site to places like Florida and Texas which have lower cost of living and laxer labor laws.
President Obama and family are headed to Blue Heron Farm on Martha's Vineyard for a 10-day vacation.
Kodak's patent auction can benefit shareholders as well as the U.S.
The recent deaths of three North American athletes have nudged the spotlight away from doping and concussions to shine a light on another of elite sport's darkest secrets -- depression.
Pop music stars The Black Eyed Peas have rescheduled their Concert 4 NYC to September 30 after extreme weather in June forced organizers to cancel the Central Park event, Will.I.Am announced on Wednesday.
A rare but deadly waterborne brain-eating amoeba called Naegleria fowleri has been blamed for three deaths in the United States within the last few weeks, according to recent reports.
Stocks tumbled more than 4 percent on Thursday after data pointed to a stalled economy and as bank shares sank on a report regulators were scrutinizing the U.S. units of big European lenders.
Antrel Rolle, Jonathan Vilma have responded to the allegations against them from disgraced former University of Miami booster Nevin Shapiro.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average took a nose dive during Thursday trading, dropping more than four percent at times during trading. As the stock markets dropped across the board it raises the question -- at what level do circuit breakers cut in to stop a stock market from crashing?
