Authors say it defines disorders more concisely; critics say it will lead to over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatments

Procedure recommended to treat aggressive liver cancer

Experts share their advice about what to consider when choosing a calcium supplement.

People with left-brain dominance tend to listen with right ear, and vice-versa, study finds

Two Health Care Workers Made Ill by SARS-Like Virus

CHICAGO (AP) — As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes.

By Randy Fabi and Nilufar Rizki JAKARTA (Reuters) - When a sick Indonesian baby died after 10 hospitals in Jakarta turned her family away in February, critics blamed a pilot health insurance scheme that had overwhelmed the city's public hospitals. The program, introduced in November, gave health insurance to around 5 million people in Jakarta categorized as poor. Long queues quickly formed at already stretched hospital emergency rooms as many patients, some who were not even ill, sought to take advantage of being covered for the first time. ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime.