health

We all know trans fat is bad, clogging our arteries and raising our cholesterol. But how bad are saturated fats? Unsaturated fats? If we’re trimming t...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea was declared Ebola-free on Tuesday, a huge step in the fight against the world's largest Ebola epidemic. The West Africa...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Inuit hunter John Goodwin for decades has hunted oogruk, the bearded seal, a marine mammal prized for its meat, oil an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson's name and face adorn the walls of dozens of schools in the U.S. and a medical school in Nigeria. Mayors have handed him ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Dr. Alfred Gilman, who won a Nobel Prize for his breakthrough research into the inner workings of cells and later left Texas' muc...

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Fifteen years after U.S. regulators started assessing damage and health risks at an abandoned Nevada copper mine, the Environmental ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sudden cardiac arrest may not always be so sudden: New research suggests a lot of people may ignore potentially life-saving warning ...

Incorporate good fats into your food with these healthy recipes.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Recordings secretly made by an anti-abortion group at meetings of abortion providers do not show criminal activity and could put ...

BEIJING (AP) — China's capital Beijing issued its second smog red alert of the month, triggering vehicle restrictions and forcing schools to close. A ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anyone under the age of 18 would be barred from using indoor tanning equipment, under a federal proposal released Friday intended to...

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...

CHICAGO (AP) — Irwin Weiner felt so good after heart surgery a few weeks before turning 90 that he stopped for a pastrami sandwich on the way home fro...

DENVER (AP) — The man who launched a deadly attack on a Planned Parenthood clinic could push a Colorado court into a tricky decision: Was it was an ac...

NEW YORK (AP) — Drug overdoses rose again last year, driven by surges in deaths from heroin and powerful prescription painkillers, according to new fe...

LONDON (AP) — There's good news for grumpy women: Being happy apparently has no effect on how long you might live. That's the conclusion of the latest...

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...

ATLANTA (AP) — A recent MRI showing no cancer on Jimmy Carter's brain is "very positive" news for the former president but will not end his medical tr...

Most of the 14 people killed at a holiday banquet in San Bernardino County, California, worked in the same county public health department as the man ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An ex-fiancee of Charlie Sheen has sued the actor claiming he didn't disclose he was HIV positive until after they had sex several ...