U.S. drug overdose deaths had been most common in Appalachia and other rural areas in recent years, but they are...
Articles by Mike Stobbe
About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one...
Children are dying less often in traffic accidents: Over a decade, the number who died in crashes dropped by 43...
Health insurers in Georgia have been granted a waiver to a new federal requirement that they spend certain minimums on...
The toll of excessive drinking works out to about $2 per drink, in terms of medical expenses and other costs...
Drunken driving incidents have fallen 30 percent in the last five years, and last year were at their lowest mark...
Bedbugs don’t make people sick. But the poisons used to kill them can. A new government study has found that...
Nearly 17 percent of U.S. medical costs can be blamed on obesity, according to new research that suggests the nation’s...
One in 10 binge drinkers got behind the wheel the last time they drank heavily. And half of those drivers...
Health officials are investigating more than 180 reports of illness in people who took dietary supplements containing toxic levels of...