More people signing up for health insurance in California
ADAM BEAM
Associated Press
SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than 130,000 people have purchased health insurance through California's state-run marketplace for the first time, a 16%...
10 ex-NFL players charged with defrauding healthcare program
MICHAEL BALSAMO
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten former NFL players were charged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the league's health care benefit program...
More Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals
MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a...
New drugs show rare promise against advanced breast cancer
MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women...
Officials list pot vape brands reported in US outbreak
MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials investigating a nationwide outbreak of vaping illnesses have listed, for the first time, the vape...
US flu season arrives early, driven by an unexpected virus
MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years.
An...
Flesh-eating bacteria linked to heroin kills 7 in California
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A flesh-eating bacteria linked to the use of black tar heroin has killed at least seven people over the past...
Phone-in-cheek: Spike seen in cellphone-linked face injuries
LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
Add facial cuts, bruises and fractures to the risks from cellphones and carelessly using them.
That's according to a study published...
Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals
LAURAN NEERGAARD
AP Medical Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day but missing doses can...
Drug can curb dementia’s delusions, researchers find
MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Chief Medical Writer
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A drug that curbs delusions in Parkinson's patients did the same for people with Alzheimer's...