The European Court of Justice is due to rule on patients rights' to get the NHS to pay for treatment in the EU. Read more…

Rising ocean temperatures look set to cause lasting damage to coral reef systems, a study suggests. Read more…

Technology companies are being encouraged to think more about how to make gadgets easy to use. Read more…

Aston Barrett, the bassist from Bob Marley's band The Wailers, loses his legal battle for Ј60m in unpaid royalties. Read more…

The Carter Center's success in pushing the Guinea worm parasite to the brink of extinction is one of several achievements that ... Read more…

My column on bottled water prompted readers to ask whether "spring waters" or "artesian well waters" were better than other bottled ... Read more…

The sign-up period for a massive federal program to help older and disabled Americans pay for prescription drugs ends Monday, ... Read more…

The bird flu that spread across Europe and into Africa this year seems to be slowing as warmer weather approaches, but flu experts ... Read more…

Researchers suspect that a high-fat diet, being used by some to fight Parkinson's disease, also could stall brain tumors and ... Read more…

This week, an Arizona family with a daughter who needs blood transfusions to survive is sponsoring its second annual International ... Read more…

Abbigail and Isabelle Carlsen remained in intensive care under sedation Saturday, one day after doctors spent nearly seven hours ... Read more…

A Texas teenager stricken with rabies he likely contracted when a bat flew into his bedroom and bit him died Friday. Read more…

The antidepressant Paxil may raise the risk of suicidal behavior in young adults, GlaxoSmithKline and the Food and Drug Administration ... Read more…

A Pfizer drug shown to help more than one in five smokers quit after a year's use received federal approval on Thursday, adding ... Read more…

Drug-resistant staph infections no longer threaten just hospital patients; for reasons unknown, they're striking even healthy ... Read more…

In the midst of a last-minute push to get seniors to sign up for the new Medicare drug program, the Bush administration on Wednesday ... Read more…

Only about one in five Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who screen positive for combat-related stress disorders are referred ... Read more…

About 40% of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the ... Read more…

Romanian health officials on Wednesday acknowledged problems in caring for disabled and abandoned children, but disputed allegations ... Read more…

AP - President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, arrives at the White House every day wearing a jovial smile that masks his boss' political troubles and his own legal woes. Read more…

AP - Republican Sen. George Allen had hoped for an easy slide to re-election and, from there, a launching pad to the presidency. Read more…

AP - Under pressure from fellow conservatives on immigration, President Bush was going before the nation Monday night with a prime-time speech calling for deployment of National Guard troops in states along the Mexican border. Read more…

AP - Pennsylvania voters Tuesday are expected to seal state Treasurer Bob Casey's nomination to run against conservative Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, and they may also show whether they are still mad at lawmakers for giving themselves a big pay raise in the middle of the night. Read more…

AP - Immigrant 15-year-olds in the United States don't do as well in math, reading or science as native-born children, and many have only basic skills, a study finds. But immigrants aren't as far behind in the U.S. as they are in some other major nations. Read more…

AFP - US military authorities suspended a military trial of a Saudi "war on terror" detainee after a US court ordered a stay until the Supreme Court rules on whether the trials are legal. Read more…