ATLANTA — A cancer diagnosis often inspires people to exercise and eat healthier. Now the experts say there’s strong evidence that both habits may help prevent the disease from coming back.
TRENTON, N.J. — Members of Congress investigating shortages of crucial drugs are targeting fake pharmacies allegedly set up solely to buy and resell the drugs at huge markups.
Fourteen-year-old Jake Carlino knows the importance of blood donation, as he was the recipient of numerous blood transfusions while he was fighting a rare bone cancer.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Happy Valley was perfect for Joe Paterno, a place where “JoePa” knew best, where he not only won more football games than any other major college coach, but won them the right way: with integrity and sportsmanship. A place where character came first, championships second.
WASHINGTON — Is health-care relief finally in sight? Health spending stabilized as a share of the nation’s economy in 2010 after two back-to-back years of historically low growth, the government reported Monday.
TRENTON, N.J. — The number of new prescription drug shortages in 2011 shot up to 267, well above the prior record and about four times the number of medication shortages in the middle of the last decade.
When Delaware police officers knocked on their door two months ago, Roy and Mary Gariepy’s hearts sank. They had a hunch it was the horrible news they suspected might come — they had been discussing for a few months the likelihood that their 23-year-old daughter, Chelsea Gariepy, would end up dead soon.
LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson’s doctor was convicted Monday of involuntary manslaughter after a trial that painted him as a reckless caregiver who administered a lethal dose of a powerful anesthetic that killed the pop star.