The president argued that a government-run plan competing with private insurers would be an “important tool to discipline insurance companies.”
Bone mineral density testing is not helpful and may even be misleading during osteoporosis treatment with bisphosphonates, new research finds.
People give higher customer satisfaction ratings to white men than to women and members of minorities, a new study says.
After working as a psychiatrist, finding help for oneself can become complicated.
A report met with some skepticism found that excess fat might have once revved up immune systems, providing a now-outdated survival tool.
People who were overweight as teenagers or young adults may be at increased risk of pancreatic cancer.
Federal agriculture officials believe that the new swine flu pandemic most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, then traveled to North America in a human.
The Muscular Dystrophy Association, based in Tucson, said it was canceling the remainder of its summer camps because swine flu had been reported in them.
One day after signing a landmark tobacco law, President Obama conceded that he sneaks the occasional cigarette.
At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, a new 100,000-square-foot science lab will enable more research into the genetic origins of diseases.
