SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- A previously rejected weight loss pill won an overwhelming endorsement from public health advisers Wednesday, raising hopes that the drug from Vivus Inc. could become the first new anti-obesity medication to reach the U.S. market in more than a decade....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Millions of people have endured a colonoscopy, believing the dreaded exam may help keep them from dying of colon cancer. For the first time, a major study offers clear evidence that it does....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- First birth control, now prenatal testing? Once again a fact of life for many American women has become a jarring issue in the presidential race....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's "one of the most feared health conditions" on Wednesday as it issued a draft of a new national strategy to fight the ominous rise in this mind-destroying disease....
