As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes.   This is therapy in a newborn intensive care...

More than a decade ago, British parents refused to give measles shots to at least a million children because of a vaccine scare that raised the specter of autism. Now, health officials are scrambling...

Baxter International Inc. says that a blood product it wastesting failed to slow mental decline or to preserve physical function in a major study of 390 patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's...

A new genetic test to gauge the aggressiveness of prostate cancer may help tens of thousands of men each year decide whether they need to treat their cancer right away or can safely monitor...

Eating fish is good for your heart, but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them, a large study in Italy...

Drugs developed to treat Alzheimer’s disease have failed to stop its progression in people experiencing mental decline. The challenge for scientists is to find out if the disease can be...

Two respiratory viruses in different parts of the world have captured the attention of global health officials — a novel coronavirus in the Middle East and a new bird flu spreading in...

New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies — bed rest — doesn't seem to prevent premature birth, and might even increase that...

The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday.   The...

US warns pregnant women of migraine drug risk   U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can...