Judith Graham

After comedian Bernie Mac (right) was hospitalized in Chicago with severe pneumonia, many news reports mentioned that Mac had suffered in the past from a condition called sarcoidosis. Though his...

The AIDS epidemic in the U.S. is far worse than previously reported, the government said Saturday in releasing new findings. About 56,300 people are now thought to be infected with...

Four years ago, when Edward Lawton was admitted to a New York hospital for surgery, he came prepared. He brought his own case of sterile gloves and asked nurses to...

The federal agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid is requiring all transplant programs to reapply for certification and comply with new standards following allegations of lax oversight featured in the...

Where there's a will to publish health-care data, there's a way. More than a dozen states, including New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, New Jersey and Wisconsin, have compiled hospital report...

If embryos are declared people and granted full legal rights, "it would cause a lot of problems," says Linda MacDonald Glenn of the Alden March Bioethics Institute in Albany, N.Y....

As the Cook County Board mulls a tax increase to plug a $300 million budget hole and shore up its clinics and hospitals, a growing number of critics are saying...

In Minnesota, all the major health plans and medical groups have collaborated on guidelines for medical practice across the state -- and they don't recommend annual physicals. Instead, physicians are...

The long, slow days of summer have arrived and with them the temptation to laze on the beach getting a golden tan. But don't fool yourself; that slapdash coat of...

In a time of widespread worry over pandemic flu and bioterrorism, the case of Andrew Speaker offered a prime chance for international health agencies to show how they would prevent...