Advocates for the mentally ill are suing the state of New Hampshire, saying it needlessly confines the disabled in mental wards because it lacks services to

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Biotech drugs have never faced generic competition because the FDA did not have power to approve copies of such medications. The Obama administration's 2010

In trying to understand what vegans do and do not eat, there are clearly two separate reasons to avoid certain foods.  Many are for health reasons, others are

While the perception is that suicides occur most commonly among young adults, statistics show that suicides are more likely to occur as people age.

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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is looking to expand Connecticut's childhood immunization program through a budget proposal that allocates $11.7 million in new funding.

More than half of doctors surveyed admitted describing someone's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy. Nearly 20 percent said they hadn't fully disclosed

Move over, coffee and Red Bull. A Harvard professor thinks the next big thing will be people inhaling their caffeine from a lipstick-sized tube. Critics say

The posters and TV spots of obese children with doleful eyes were as stark as their accompanying messages: "Being fat takes the fun out of being a kid," and

The Obama administration will push for a $156 million increase in funding for Alzheimer's research over the next two years, the Department of Health and Human

A ballot question supporting the medicinal use of marijuana in Massachusetts is being bankrolled almost entirely by an Ohio billionaire who has backed similar

Students at Shippensburg University in central Pennsylvania can get the "morning-after" pill by sliding $25 into a vending machine installed at the request of