Patients who took calcium increased their risk of a heart attack by about 30 percent, according to researchers who said the use of dietary supplements for preventing and treating osteoporosis should be reviewed. In five studies with more than 8,000 pa...

Cindy Lohman holds a photo of her late son, Ryan, on the grounds of Monocacy National Battlefield in Frederick, Maryland, on July 9, 2010. Photographer: Bill Cramer/Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg Chart: How Insurers Profit From Death Benefit...

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. ...

So much for transparency. Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, includi...

iPhone 3GS made by Apple Inc. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Owners of Apple Inc.’s iPhone can unlock the device to use applications not authorized by the company, the U.S. Library of Congress said. Librarian of Congress James H....

 View Enlarged Image Fiscal Policy: Many voters are looking forward to 2011, hoping a new Congress will put the country back on the right track. But unless something's done soon, the new year will also come with a raft of tax hikes â€...

Recovering: Darya Egorova had faced the threat of having her leg amputated Diagnosed with bone cancer, Darya Egorova faced the very real threat of having a leg amputated. Less than a year later though, the six-year-old is back on her feet and ...

The world literally fades to grey when we feel depressed, scientists have discovered. Depression has an effect on the eyes that makes it harder to detect the black and white contrasts. Scientists in Germany carried out tests on the retinas of patients...

The sovereign debt crisis would seem to create worry enough for European banks, but there is another gathering threat that has not garnered as much notice: the trillions of dollars in short-term borrowing that institutions around the world must repay or r...

Suzanne Matthews, a nurse at Seattle Children's Hospital, uses a supply system based on factory methods.  In the past, nurses had makeshift stockpiles.   Dr. Howard Jeffries of Seattle Children's Hospital says one of his favorite improvement...

The co-chairmen of President Obama's debt and deficit commission offered an ominous assessment of the nation's fiscal future here Sunday, calling current budgetary trends a cancer "that will destroy the country from within" unless checked by tough action ...

With a new mandate looming that will require business owners to file millions more tax forms, the Internal Revenue Service has begun the daunting process of figuring out how to turn the law's sweeping demands into actual rules for taxpayers. The new regu...

In the early 1970s, when Daniel Ellsberg wanted to get top-secret information about the Vietnam War to the public, he leaked the bombshell Pentagon Papers to elected officials and national newspapers. But if Ellsberg, a former U.S. military analyst, want...

There is nothing like a new hip or knee to put the spring back in your step. Patients receiving joint implants often are able to resume many of the physical activities they love, even those as vigorous as tennis and hiking. No wonder, then, that joint r...

New data from a Swedish study show that population screening with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in men between 50 and 69 years of age reduced prostate cancer mortality by almost half during a follow-up period of 14 years. The finding was published onlin...

Hospitals for the first time will be inspected yearly by a professional group to see whether physician interns are properly supervised and get enough time off, at a cost to the facilities of as much as $15,000 a year. The Accreditation Council for Gra...

A study of brain scans has confirmed the role of several genes linked with Alzheimer's disease, and turned up two others that are worth exploring, U.S. researches said on Monday.   A team at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston used magnetic re...

The chairman of the Business Roundtable, an association of top corporate executives that has been President Obama's closest ally in the business community, accused the president and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday of creating an "increasingly hostile envir...

Kaiser Foundation Survey Finds Steep Jump in Health Insurance premiums The Associated Press:  Indianapolis People who buy their own health insurance have been hit lately with premium hikes that far exceed increases in premiums for employer-sponsore...

 View Enlarged Image Internal administration documents reveal that up to 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage because of ObamaCare. Small firms will be even likelier to lose existing plans. The ...