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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A filtering problem in a medical laboratory was at the heart of an infection outbreak in six Alabama hospitals where nine patients died and 10 others were sickened after receiving intravenous feeding bags contaminated with bacteria, health officials said Thursday...

Fears about health risks rose dramatically in Japan Tuesday with news of a greater radiation release and renewed warnings to remaining residents within 20 miles to stay indoors. Japanese officials said that more radiation was released at a nuclear plant disastrously damaged by last week's...

The brain tumor came back. An ugly mass growing in plain view threatened Karen Niles' remaining eye. She needed more surgery. This time, however, her medical plan wouldn't pay. It sounds like one of those insurance "horror stories" that President Barack Obama hammered home during the fierce...

-- Federal authorities indicted and arrested more than 100 doctors, nurses and health care executives nationwide Thursday in what officials said was the biggest crackdown ever in a single day in connection with Medicare fraud. "We are pleased to announce the largest federal health care fraud...

Calling state oversight of an abortion clinic where at least one mother and seven viable babies died "despicable," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett fired a half-dozen employees and announced changes Tuesday in two departments. The Department of Health and the Department of State have primary...

Police want to talk to singer Black Madam in connection with an underground cosmetic procedure death. -- A singer is being sought for questioning in connection with the death of a woman following a cosmetic procedure, police said Friday. Claudia Aderotimi, 20, died early Tuesday, shortly...

Charges have been laid in the deaths of two workers who were electrocuted west of Edmonton two years ago. Damien McEwen and Jason Banks were killed while raising equipment when it touched an overhead powerline in January of 2009. Eric Speuhler, Pro-flo Production Separators and TY2K Consulting...

The recalled back and muscle pain relief tablets, acetaminophen, and sinus medications were all store-brand products. The manufacturer of over-the-counter painkillers is voluntarily recalling several lots from Canadian stores as a precaution, Health Canada says. The recall applies to six...

-- Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican effort to repeal the health care law passed last year. The party-line vote, with all 47 Republicans in favor and 51 Democrats opposed, meant the procedural motion failed to get the necessary 60 votes to pass. Two Democrats didn't vote...

The fight over the health care reform law ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge on Monday will eventually be decided by the Supreme Court, said CNN senior legal analyst Jeff Toobin. "This Supreme Court is very evenly divided between liberals and conservatives. Anthony Kennedy tends to be...

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-- The Army's vice chief of staff, Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who has been at the forefront of the effort to reduce soldier suicides, said Wednesday that he is most concerned about the Army not having enough doctors, nurses and other caregivers. "It's just not enough," Chiarelli testified during...

The Ontario government used Weedless Wednesday to encourage more people to butt out, but Premier Dalton McGuinty said he won't ban smoking in apartment buildings. "I think when you get into people's homes, you're crossing a line," said McGuinty. "It's pretty intrusive for us to go in there and...

NEW YORK – Steve Jobs is the public face of Apple, but that doesn't mean investors get to know every last detail about the CEO's health. Jobs announced this week he is taking his third medical leave from the company he started in 1976. No date was given for when he will return. No information...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2011/01/17/keilar.house.hc.vote.cnn -- Floor debate is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the House of Representatives on a repeal of President Obama's health care overhaul bill. The start of the process fulfills a campaign promise of congressional Republicans...

The health critic for the federal Liberals says private clinics in Quebec are breaking the law by charging patients for medically necessary services. Vancouver MP Ujjal Dosanjh sent a letter Friday to federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq urging the Conservative government to take action. The...

Central Canada is probably starting to hit the peak of a flu season that started earlier than normal and is causing more severe disease in the elderly, doctors say. Although last year's H1N1 strain primarily affected younger Canadians, the H3N2 strain is causing large outbreaks in nursing homes...

BEIJING – China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday. The health and other costs of smoking already exceed...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/12/23/sotu.sunday.preview.12.26.cnn The president may have kicked his smoking habit once and for all. It has been about nine months since the president's last cigarette, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In an interview on CNN's...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2010/12/21/exp.am.intv.gillibrand.responders.cnn Washington -- A health care bill meant to provide free medical treatment to those suffering from the health effects of working in and near ground zero following the 2001 attacks may come up for a Senate vote...