As President Obama wages his campaign to sell Americans on the need for overhauling health care, he is using a familiar tactic: trying to make the political personal by putting a human face on a complicated and sometimes abstract debate.

Scientists have discovered a gene that helps a mother and daughter stay alert on about six hours sleep a night, two hours less than the rest of their family needs.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning diabetes patients that certain blood-sugar tests can give inaccurate results in patients taking other medications.

How to safely get rid of lice; natural remedies for hot flashes and insomnia.

A Senate committee has scrapped the part of its health-care bill that has given rise in recent days to fears of government “death panels.”

Many family doctors and others on the front lines of medical care, who typically earn far less than their specialist counterparts, hope any health-care-reform package will include tools for easing a dire shortage of primary-care doctors.

Breast cancer survivors have been getting bum advice. For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.

Far from potentially causing harm, as women have been warned, a strength-building regimen appears to reduce the severity of lymphedema, a sometimes debilitating result of breast-cancer surgery.

Eight Amazon Indians of the Machiguenga Tribe have tested positive for swine flu and are recovering, Peruvian health officials said Wednesday.

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