BY WALT BOGDANICH AND JO CRAVEN MCGINTY - New York Times Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice o...

Mayor Michael W. Tucker said Friday that when the city institutes its new privatized garbage collection system later this summer, residents who want to make a donation toward breast cancer research will have the option of buying a pink plastic garbag...

Women would have to wait 24 hours, undergo counseling and have an ultrasound - at a cost of as much as $300 - before having an abortion. Gov. Bev Perdue is widely expected to veto it. Voters would have to show photo IDs at polls starting next year. ....

Researchers claim that a woman who gain 8 or more than 8kgs weight after first pregnancy are three times more likely to have gestational diabetes during their second pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is a kind of diabetes that affects women during thei...

It turns out he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a chronic, inflammatory arthritis and autoimmune disease. It affects joints in the spine, the sacroiliac joint and pelvis, causing fusion of the spine. It affects less than 1 percent of the ...

The cause behind the disease is not known so far and medical experts said that the disease resembling the symptoms of encephalitis-an inflammation of the brain. Kejriwal hospital is still now receiving new cases with the unknown disease. ...

The hospitals collaborate on initiatives to address high blood pressure and children's asthma. While the theory behind health reform is to provide coverage for more people, the executives said the need for charity care won't disappear, and th...