A new study suggests that free drug samples, an effective marketing tool for the drug industry, do little to help the poor and may put children?s health at risk.

A new Obama-Biden campaign ad says that, unlike John McCain, "Barack Obama would require insurance companies to cover routine treatments like vaccines and mammograms"

Which presidential candidate's health-care plan is better for you and your family? If you can answer that with any degree of certainty, I know some pollsters who'd like to have a word with you.

Massachusetts received the Bush administration?s seal of approval for its universal health care plan on Tuesday when it reached agreement with federal officials on financing a three-year continuation of the landmark experiment.

We can learn from our mistakes, but how willing are we to talk about them? And what happens when those making mistakes are physicians, who are often expected to be infallible?

There's a new medical specialty called palliative care, and it's become widespread enough to warrant a new state-by-state report card on its availability and quality.

The Food and Drug Administration is Thursday starting the process of rewriting federal regulations governing how over-the-counter cold and cough medicines are approved and marketed to children amid concerns over whether the products are safe and effective.

Even as the medical community debates the widespread use of Gardasil, a vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer, the government has made it a mandatory treatment for young women seeking to immigrate to the U.S.

While the pharmaceutical industry plays a vital role in the healthcare system, company profit motives can corrupt medical decision-making. In particular, company-funded research may be biased in favor of products made by the sponsors, making it difficult for doctors to accurately interpret new findings.

On a massive sound stage at Hollywood's Raleigh Studios, a woman is dying of ovarian cancer.

With the U.S. Congress wrangling over a $700-billion bailout plan for the financial crisis this week, the final contours of any bailout are hard to predict. But some experts say that any bailout?or even no bailout at all?may decimate funding for science.

It's no longer enough to tout the anticipated treatments and even cures; real marketable products and profits need to be seen.

Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.

More than 90 percent of U.S. nursing homes in each of the past three years were cited for violating federal standards, according to a government report.

More than 80 million adults in the United States are estimated to use some form of alternative medicine, from herbs and megavitamins to yoga and acupuncture. But while sweeping claims are made for these treatments, the scientific evidence for them often lags far behind: studies and clinical trials, when they exist at all, can be shoddy in design and too small to yield reliable insights.

At a time when the gulf between religion and science is growing ever greater, an artist has erected a temple for scientific worship.

Congress has shelved a $10.9 billion bill to provide health care for ground zero workers, partly due to opposition from New York City officials.

In this first installment of Health Care Watch, Stuart M. Butler and Ezekiel Emanuel talk about the missing debate on health care.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring health-insurance providers nationwide to cover mental-health treatment on an equal basis with medical care, a concept known as mental-health parity.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger spent more than a year pursuing a radical overhaul of a health care system that leaves millions uninsured and virtually everyone else struggling with ever-growing costs for skimpier coverage.