MEDICINE

Silymarin, a botanical extract from milk thistle, performed no better than placebo in a trial of hepatitis C patients.

Black women account for only 13 percent of the U.S. female population, but undergo more than one-third of all abortions.

Researchers found kids who had multiple fillings made using BPA - and who'd had those fillings for a long time - consistently scored two to six points worse on 100-point behavior measures than those who had none of the fillings or who'd only had one for a short time.

Previous studies have made the connection between obesity and colon cancer, but a new study is the first to point to a higher risk of adenomas in heavy people.

Years before leftist Bolivian President Evo Morales was elected to office in 2006, he chaired the country's coca growers union, a post which he was recently re-elected to and has held since 1996.

Rausing is believed to have died of a drug overdose.

Six months after the mass recall that left headache and migraine sufferers at a loss for a cure, Excedrin is still not on the market officially but many have turned to the black market, as Excedrin has been seen for sale on consumer-to-consumer website eBay for $150. However, Novartis said it is working very hard to return products to store shelves and has plans to restart production on a line-by-line, product-by-product basis by the ?second half of the year.?

Many small businesses have been paying nearly twice the amount for half the health care benefits that they are entitled to provide their employees. However, under the new health care mandate, health insurance will be more affordable for small companies.

The worst tuberculosis outbreak the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention has seen in 20 years is occurring among Jacksonville, Florida's homeless population, the Palm Beach Post reports. But state officials did little to address it.

Three people have already died following a cholera outbreak in southeastern Cuba last week, with at least 50 more people contracting the life-threatening waterborne bacterial disease and around 1,000 people showing symptoms of infection.

Good news beachgoers! A sunscreen pill made from coral could one day render suntan lotion nearly obsolete, which would mean no more slathering on the sunblock every time you hit the beach.

A Japanese study found that among more than 5,000 adults who went into cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, the odds of surviving were up to two times higher when more than one person tried to help.

Aimee Copeland, the Georgia graduate student who contracted necrotizing fasciitis after a zip lining accident, has been released from an Augusta hospital on Tuesday.

Armando Montano had been interning with the Associated Press in Mexico City for less than a month before he was found dead at the bottom of an elevator shaft.

The Republican benign-neglect approach to health care reform during the past decade was an unwitting contributor to the situation we find ourselves in today.

One hundred years after former President Teddy Roosevelt first proposed it, the United States -- the richest nation on earth -- has finally joined the world?s other, major, industrialized economies in having a universal health insurance plan.

The Supreme Court has spoken, the president has spoken, and Congress has spoken. Now it is time for the American people to speak.

Researchers have concocted a new way to deliver the breath of life to patients with incapacitated lungs: an injectable oxygen foam made up of tiny pockets of gas surrounded by a thin layer of fat.

Market data shows the developing world is set to match the First World's rate of consumption of soda and processed food within three decades, a new study says.

People with severe psoriasis were 46 percent more likely to get a diabetes diagnosis than people without the condition, after weight and other health measures were taken into account, according to a new study.

Editors of the journal PLoS Medicine said their publication and other medical journals have failed to shine a strong enough light on the influence of food companies on national and global health, and are aiming to correct that with a new series.