health issues

WASHINGTON (AP) — It's crunch time to sign up for coverage under President Barack Obama's health care law. The website works much better now, but risi...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont medical school is offering what is believed to be one of the nation's first full courses in the scien...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans ignored a White House promise of a veto Wednesday and pushed toward Senate passage of legislation demolishing President ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A newly approved drug is being hailed as a major advance in treatment of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease th...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Linda Horan, diagnosed in July with late-stage lung cancer, says she may be dead before New Hampshire opens its first medical mar...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The math is harsh: The federal penalty for having no health insurance is set to jump to $695, and the Obama administration is being ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Excited shoppers looking to score some of the first recreational marijuana sold legally in Oregon bought up baggies of bud early...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's medical marijuana dispensaries are getting ready for a watershed moment this week: when recreational pot users will als...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a series of steps on Wednesday to lessen the burden of out-of-pocket medical bills for Americans cov...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington launched its second-in-the-nation legal marijuana market with just a handful of stores selling high-priced pot to long lines...

ATLANTA (AP) — Just days after a historic U.S. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage, Indiana's religious freedom law took effect Wednesday amid...

CHICAGO (AP) — Throughout the country, relief was the dominant emotion among consumers who get help from the government to lower their health insuranc...

CHICAGO (AP) — Medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses that state laws have approved it for, according to the first comprehen...

DENVER (AP) — Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. The state Supreme Court ruled 5-1 Monday that a medical marijuana...