MEDICINE

A Milwaukee woman was arrested for killing a mother and baby on Monday after cutting pregnant mother’s full-term fetus from her womb with an Exacto knife in an attempt to steal the unborn baby.

A link between the use of multivitamins and higher death rates among older women have been reported by a new study.

A Nevada jury ordered a Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd unit and two other healthcare companies to pay $162.5 million in punitive damages to a group of colonoscopy patients who claimed they contracted Hepatitis C from vials of the sedative Propofol, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

Obese and overweight Americans combined for more than 60 percent of the population, said a recent Gallup poll, measuring overweight Americans with normal-weight Americans.

The HIV infection rate is expected to rise by a whopping 52 percent this year, half due to intravenous drug use.

Researchers found the first genetic cause of melanoma - the most dangerous form of skin cancer -unrelated to hair, skin or eye color, typically associated with the disease.

Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index finds there are more normal weight Americans than overweight.

The antibiotic that has usually been used to treat the sexually transmitted disease, cefixime, is no longer effective.

California bans tanning bed use for all minors.

A total of 21 people nationwide have now died in the listeriosis outbreak linked to cantaloupes from a Colorado farm, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

Federal U.S. attorneys in California said that illegal dispensaries and growing operations have proliferated in the state.

Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers vote against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men.

The FDA has approved a combination drug for diabetes and high cholesterol.

Reports surfaced Thursday of an influential medical group of doctors and advisers voting against routine screenings of prostate cancer for healthy men. Although the vote has drawn criticism from health groups worried that the move will increase deaths in men at risk of the cancer.

Researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have devised a smart option that uses an iPhone app to convert a Smart Phone Into a Medical Monitor. The researchers intend to eventually adapt tablet devices, into sophisticated medical monitors that would capture and transmit vital physiological data.

Emergency room visits by children with concussions and other traumatic brain injuries from sports or other recreational activities have increased over the last decade according to a government report.

Steve Jobs had a rare form of pancreatic cancer initially believed to be treatable

Amidst an outpouring of social media tributes to Steve Jobs on Wednesday in the immediate aftermath of the Apple co-founder's death, so have donations toward awareness and research of his longtime battle with pancreatic cancer.

CDC report shows that there has been a 60 percent increase in kids who come in for TBIs.

Study shows that a lack of trauma centers disproportionately affects minorities and the uninsured.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs, 56, deemed irreplaceable by millions of fans of the operating system, died on Wednesday due to his long battle with a rare form of pancreatic cancer, beginning in 2004, when he underwent transplant surgery for it.