WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has fined the Red Cross an additional $4.6 million for the distribution of “unsuitable blood products,” bringing penalties against the organization to more than $19 million in recent years….

LONDON (AP) — Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn’t save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars….

LONDON (AP) — British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that researchers hope might be used one day to produce embryos free of inherited diseases….

ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time, health officials report that the AIDS virus can be spread by a mother pre-chewing her infant’s food, a practice mainly seen in poor, developing countries….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday….

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just like with do-it-yourself taxes, a growing software industry lets patients create their own “personal health records.” No more answering 10-page questionnaires every time you visit a new doctor - just hit the print button before leaving home to arrive armed with your life’s medical history….

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A group of doctors from New Jersey is opposing a plan by Aetna Inc. to drop coverage of a type of anesthesia used during colonoscopies….

LONDON (AP) — Preventing obesity and smoking can save lives, but it doesn’t save money, researchers reported Monday. It costs more to care for healthy people who live years longer, according to a Dutch study that counters the common perception that preventing obesity would save governments millions of dollars….

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don’t be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law….

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A new inhaled steroid treatment for preventing asthma attacks in young children has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration, the drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. said Monday….