A new research field is growing, known as comparative oncology, which uses companion animals (mostly dogs) as models for human cancer.

Offering financial incentives to expecting moms may improve their use of prenatal care and make for healthier babies, new research suggests.

A study by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research estimated that nearly 1 million people from California alone seek medical, dental or prescription services in Mexico each year.

Dr. Jason Newsom railed against burgers, french fries and fried chicken in his campaign to promote better eating. If he had only left the doughnuts alone.

A North Dakota woman convicted of breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby while drunk is in jail after another run-in with the law.

Michelle Obama may have become an archetypal black female success story — law career, strong marriage, happy children — but the reality is often very different for other highly educated black women.

Gibson, the California dog dubbed the tallest in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, has died after a battle with bone cancer.

The U.S. government has finalized rules aimed at making it easier for seriously ill patients to gain access to unapproved medicines when they have exhausted other options.

Breast cancer patients with even the tiniest spread of the disease to a lymph node have a much higher risk of it recurring later and may need more treatment than just surgery.

Scientists have shown that when 9-month-olds watch people reach for objects, the motor region in their brains gets activated, as if the babies were doing the reaching themselves.