Posted: 10:22 AM Nursing women in Utah have donated more than a ton of breast milk to a nonprofit milk bank since the University of Utah opened a donation center earlier this year.
Posted: 7:28 AM The federal government is giving Colorado more than $26 million to enroll more children in health insurance.
Posted: 10:56 AM Starting Jan. 1, coaches will be required to bench players when it's believed they've suffered a head injury.
Posted: 10:48 AM A little-known provision of President Barack Obama's health care law will soon begin charging health insurance plans a fee for research to see which drugs, tests and treatments work best.
Posted: 9:57 AM The journal Science is retracting a research paper suggesting that chronic fatigue syndrome may be caused by a virus.
Posted: 10:04 AM The government is asking researchers not to publish data about a genetically engineered bird flu.
Posted: 6:25 AM A government health panel is advocating "active surveillance" of prostate cancer.
Posted: 2:28 PM Federal health regulators have approved the first heart pump for children with heart failure, offering an important treatment option for patients who are too small to receive adult implants.
Posted: 9:16 AM The Institute of Medicine says chimpanzees, humans' closest living relatives, should hardly ever be used for medical research anymore.
Posted: 10:15 AM A government survey found that one-quarter of women say they were violently attacked by their intimate partners.
Posted: 10:25 AM Federal prosecutors say and illegal kickback scheme involving fifteen doctors and other health care professionals started as early as 2010.
Posted: 9:17 AM Dr. Sherry Gorman finds herself at the center of a lawsuit two years after a surgery tech receives a 20 year sentence for replacing syringes with dirty ones.
Posted: 7:48 AM The first lady announced in an email Monday that her October bid to break the record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period succeeded.
Posted: 6:45 AM Ever sneak a bite of the raw cookie dough log living in your refrigerator? You might be seriously risking your health, according to a new study.
Posted: 6:12 AM Promising results from two studies involving drug treatments potentially offer new hope for breast cancer patients.
Posted: 12:22 PM Women concerned about breast cancer should worry less about cellphones and hair dyes and worry more about weighing or drinking too much, exercising too little, using menopause hormones and getting too much radiation from medical tests.
Updated: 11:49 AM Overruling her own experts, the nation's health secretary says young teenagers cannot buy the Plan B morning-after pill without a prescription.
Updated: 6:38 AM Administrators of Corpus Christi Catholic School, located off Cascade Avenue, have notified parents that one student has contracted a viral form of meningitis.
Posted: 8:52 AM Federal regulators are ordering several companies to stop selling an unproven weight loss remedy that uses protein from the human placenta.
Posted: 5:13 AM A proposed federal law would make it a crime for drug distributors to price gouge on prescriptions that are in short supply.
Posted: 2:51 PM A surge in young nurses may ease forecasts of coming shortages as their baby-boomer coworkers retire.
Updated: 7:45 AM Thursday marks "World Aids Day," and health officials have a new recommendation for anyone living with HIV.
Posted: 9:51 AM The NEA is announcing formation of a task force involving federal agencies. The goal is to research how the arts impact human development.
Posted: 2:55 PM States have cut funding for tobacco prevention programs to the lowest level since 1999, according to a new report.
