VIENNA (Reuters) - A Vienna hospital is searching for long-retired staff who might hold clues to a man's claim that he was deliberately infected with malaria when he was a psychiatric patient nearly half a century ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new government study reports that while fewer kids and teens are getting exposed to secondhand smoke while riding in the car, rates of exposure are still high enough to warrant ...

The action on Saturday came one day after the agency suspended the license of drug distributor Cardinal Health Inc to ship such products from its facility in Lakeland, Florida. Cardinal immediately obtained a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For most people running one marathon is a daunting prospect but research scientist Leslie Miller belongs to group of runners who have completed 100 or more marathons, many of them just for the fun ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Nearly 4,600 U.S. children were hospitalized with broken bones, traumatic brain injury and other serious damage caused by physical abuse in 2006, according to a new report. Babies younger ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reviewers from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday that they were not sure whether Amgen Inc's Xgeva bone drug should be approved for a wider use of delaying the spread of cancer ...

Green tea contains antioxidant chemicals that may help ward off the cell damage that can lead to disease. Researchers have been studying green tea's effect on everything from cholesterol to the risk of certain cancers, ...

The biopharmaceutical company plans to enroll about 10,000 patients in the placebo-controlled trial for demonstrating that the drug Contrave does not unacceptably increase the risk of major adverse cardiovascular ...

Ninety passengers and 13 crew members on the Ruby Princess cruise ship contracted the Norovirus, a contagious gastrointestinal illness that causes vomiting and diarrhea for one to three days, Julie Benson, a ...

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - There can only be one winner in Sunday's Super Bowl but for two opposing players, a bigger battle has already been won, victory over cancer. New York Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich and New ...