A new report shows that most low-income people who lose their jobs also are without health care insurance.

The federal government sent potentially contaminated peanut products to schools in three states for a free lunch program in 2007.

To emphasize a point about malaria prevention, the Microsoft co-founder opened a jar of mosquitoes on stage and let the swarm mingle with audience members.

A California agency says it paid the mother of newborn octuplets more than $165,000 in disability payments for an on-the-job back injury.

The mother of the California octuplets is out of the hospital, and she's given her first interview.

The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee says he's surprised a Texas peanut plant run by a company responsible for a national salmonella outbreak operated uninspected and unlicensed for nearly four years.

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A Massachusetts businessman is pledging $100 million to create a new institute that will search for vaccines for AIDS and other diseases.

A new study suggests about a third of U.S. children and teens take vitamins, but most probably don't need them.

A new study says efforts to produce stem cells by putting human DNA into animal eggs may be futile.

Flu season is making a slow start this winter. There are widespread cases reported in only two states: Virginia and New Jersey.

A federal appeals court has rejected a consumer group's bid to use Medicare billing records to rate individual doctors.

Government advisers are recommending a ban on Darvon, mainly marketed as Darvocet, one of the top 25 most commonly prescribed pain medications.

A federal appeals court says lawsuits brought by Nigerian families against Pfizer over the drugmaker's testing of an antibiotic to treat meningitis can go forward.

The Sedgwick County Health Department is currently investigating a syphilis outbreak. Twenty-four syphilis cases were reported to the state from the Sedgwick County area for 2008.

The Senate has approved legislation that would increase spending on children's health insurance and extend government-sponsored coverage to 4 million uninsured children.

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Researchers found that people who gave up one of their two kidneys lived a normal life span and had an excellent quality of life.

Democratic lawmakers say the GOP's legislation didn't go far enough, covering only about half of the number of uninsured children that the Democrats' bill would cover.

There's word today of a broad change in Medicare drug coverage that spells relief for cancer patients but could mean a major new expense for the government.

The University of Kansas and Kansas State University are joining forces in pursuit of NCI designation for KU's Cancer Center.

Officials say four kinds of salmonella have been identified in the growing investigation of tainted peanut products.

Via Christi Regional Medical Center received the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award for the third year in a row.

Federal health officials are investigating whether the blockbuster blood thinner Plavix is less effective in some patients.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. is buying rival drugmaker Wyeth in a $68 billion cash-and-stock deal that could reshape the drug development industry.