SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday allowing terminally ill people in the nationamp;apos;s most populous state to take their own lives, saying the emotionally charged bill forced him to consider amp;quot;what I would want in the face of my own death.amp;quot;...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday making California the fifth state in the nation to recognize a right to die for terminally ill patients, saying the emotionally charged bill forced him to consider amp;quot;what I would want in the face of my own death.amp;quot;...
Doctors have discovered a potential problem involving implanted heart valves that hundreds of thousands of people have received - they donamp;apos;t always open and close properly, possibly because a blood clot has formed that could raise the risk of stroke....
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- The Nobel prize in medicine went Monday to three scientists hailed as amp;quot;heroes in the truest sense of the wordamp;quot; for saving millions of lives with the creation of the worldamp;apos;s leading malaria-fighting drug and another that has nearly wiped out two devastating tropical diseases....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health authorities are ordering manufacturers of specialized medical scopes to study how the reusable devices are cleaned following a series of life-threatening bacterial outbreaks at U.S. hospitals....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- A Chinese scientist who turned to ancient texts to discover a powerful malaria drug shared the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday with American and Japanese researchers whose discoveries have raised hopes of eliminating other tropical diseases....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three scientists from the U.S., Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs to fight malaria and other tropical diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering drugs against malaria and other parasitic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people every year....
STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Volkswagenamp;apos;s pollution-control chicanery has not just been victimless tinkering, killing between five and 20 people in the United States annually in recent years, according to an Associated Press statistical and computer analysis....
CHICAGO (AP) -- Injuries from zip line accidents have soared along with the popularity of an activity that hurtles riders through the air, sometimes at dizzying heights above ground, a study of U.S. emergency room data shows....