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Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no co-pays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.
Two adults were arrested Sunday afternoon for leaving four children locked in their car with a window cracked for more than two hours.
Their marriage was a loving one, but Bob Baker admits he didn't know what to do once his wife was diagnosed with Leukemia in 2008.
With yet another day of triple digit weather, hospitals are seeing an increase in the number of patients suffering from heat-related illnesses.
A recall of thousands of pounds of ready-to-eat chicken has been expanded over concerns that the meat could be contaminated with bacteria.
McDonald's Corp. is adding apples to all its Happy Meals and launching a nutrition-focused mobile phone app as part of a broader health push.
The cost of prescription medicines used by millions of people every day is about to plummet. The next 14 months will bring generic versions of seven of the world's 20 best-selling drugs, including: Lipitor and Plavix.
A South Texas company says it is recalling papayas imported from Mexico because they could be contaminated with salmonella.
One of the biggest mammography centers in North Texas is now using a new form of breast examination that could eventually make the traditional mammography obsolete.
A poultry giant has recalled more than five tons of ready-to-eat chicken made in Texas because the products could be contaminated with bacteria.
How often have you showed up for a doctor or dentist appointment and waited, and waited, and waited? Now it seems the tables are turning and some patients are getting paid to wait for their doctors if the physicians don't stay on schedule.
A North Texas teen is fighting for his life after collapsing on the basketball court. His family says he was the picture of health. Now, the mother of another Plano athlete who lost her child is reaching out to help save lives.
A budding model for primary care that encourages the family doctor to act as a health coach who focuses as much on preventing illness as on treating it has shown promising results and saved insurers millions of dollars.
The new research, released in the August issue of "Pediatrics," suggests children are actually safer in a car driven by their grandparents than when their parents are behind the wheel.
A large study in older veterans raises fresh concern about mild brain injuries that hundreds of thousands of troops have suffered from explosions in recent wars.