A California Senate committee is advancing a proposal to eliminate health insurance companies and guarantee government-funded health care for all residents
Stanislaus State basketball coach Larry Reynolds announced that he has Parkinson's disease and will remain with the Warriors as co-head coach with Paul Trevor
The bucolic Shenandoah River is sending some not-so-lovely material downstream, according to a new report that finds Virginia is failing to adequately manage waste from millions of chickens and cows
The moribund Republican health care bill has received a jolt of life because the conservative House Freedom Caucus has endorsed a revised version of the measure
A jury will return after failing to reach a verdict on the first day of deliberations in the Medicare fraud trial of a prominent Florida eye doctor who is accused separately of bribing a U.S. senator
Immigration authorities are detaining a gay Russian man infected with HIV who was seeking U.S. asylum in California
House Republicans are debating a proposed compromise among hardliners and moderates that might let them advance GOP legislation to roll back much of the current health care law
Texas' highest criminal court has refused an appeal from Kimberly Cargill, an East Texas woman on death row for the slaying seven years ago of her developmentally disabled baby sitter
Researchers have taken an important step toward better lung cancer treatment, they reported Wednesday
The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered a drug company's fight to keep a generic version of its biotech drug off the market for an additional six months that would mean billions more in sales and higher costs to the public
Health insurers are pressing President Donald Trump and Congress to guarantee a crucial customer subsidy for the Affordable Care Act's shaky insurance exchanges, and one of the biggest carriers has thrown in its participation as bargaining chip
The Livestrong cancer charity saw another fundraising and contributions nosedive in 2015 for a third straight year after founder Lance Armstrong's performance-enhancing drug scandal
Scientists created an artificial womb enough like mom's to help tiny lambs grow for a month _ boosting hopes that it might one day help extremely premature babies
A former health minister of Azerbaijan who has been imprisoned since 2005 has been sentenced to seven more years behind bars