Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them. More »Doctors report rise in kids eating detergent packs
States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More »Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking
Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash — sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist — and then asking the government for replacement cards. The Agriculture Department wants to curb the practice by giving states more power to investigate people who repeatedly claim to lose their benefit cards. More »Gov't taking new steps to combat food stamp fraud
The same anesthetic that caused the overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson is now the drug of choice for executions in Missouri, causing a stir among critics who question how the state can guarantee a drug untested for lethal injection won't cause pain and suffering for the condemned. More »Missouri opts for untested drug for executions
A person with an active case of tuberculosis who visited two Northern California neonatal intensive care units had a valid reason to be there and had not been diagnosed at the time, officials said Wednesday. More »Person visited neonatal units before TB diagnosis
Max Hirsh says he sensed something wasn't quite right when the psychiatrist focused on his failures with sports and teenage girls, as well as his deficient relationships with older men, particularly his father. More »Man says Ore. psychiatrist told him he wasn't gay
Health officials are testing 35 babies for tuberculosis after a person with an active case of the life-threatening disease visited neonatal-intensive care units at two Northern California hospitals. More »Health officials testing 35 babies for TB exposure
Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general. More »UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term
A year after Japan's nuclear accident at Fukushima, the World Health Organization says several areas near the plant had radiation above cancer-causing levels but most of the nation did not. More »UN says most Fukushima radiation doses below norms
A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan — a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation. More »Auction claims it's selling vial with Reagan blood
A powerful health advisory agency says Britain should extend free fertility treatments to women up to age 42 as well as same-sex couples, recommendations likely to be followed by many of the U.K.'s medical centers. More »UK may allow IVF for older women, same-sex couples
Ronald Reagan's foundation on Tuesday denounced the sale by a Channel Islands online auction house of a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from the late U.S. president. More »Auction claims to be selling vial of Reagan blood
More than a third of the malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality, seriously undermining efforts to fight the disease, a study said Tuesday. More »Study: Fake malaria drugs common in Asia, Africa
Swept by the barefoot running craze, ultramarathoner Ryan Carter ditched his sneakers for footwear that mimics the experience of striding unshod. More »Born to run barefoot? Some end up getting injured
A study says more than a third of malaria-fighting drugs tested over the past decade in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa were either fake or bad quality. More »Fake malaria drugs litter Southeast Asia, Africa
Healthy men shouldn't get routine prostate cancer screenings, says updated advice from a government panel that found the PSA blood tests do more harm than good. More »Final advice: Panel against routine prostate test
"Pink slime" was almost "pink paste" or "pink goo." More »The making of the term 'pink slime'
A simple, cheaper exam of just the lower part of the bowel can cut the risk of developing colon cancer or dying of the disease, a large federal study finds. More »Study: Simple scope exam cuts colon cancer deaths
Half the nation's overweight teens have unhealthy blood pressure, cholesterol or blood sugar levels that put them at risk for future heart attacks and other cardiac problems, new federal research says. More »CDC: Half of overweight teens have heart risk
New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers. More »Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers
For the first time, the government is proposing that all baby boomers get tested for hepatitis C. More »CDC to baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis C
In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes. But in France, they are more often sent to a psychiatrist where they get talk therapy meant for people with psychological or emotional problems. More »French autistic kids mostly get psychotherapy
Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance. Nonetheless, she says she'd be dead if it weren't for President Barack Obama's health care law. More »Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court
Dropping a paper prescription at the drugstore is becoming old-school: More than a third of the nation's prescriptions now are electronic, according to the latest count. More »More doctors are ditching the old prescription pad
The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? More »Panel debates bioterrorism protection for children
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