Organic farmers won a 20-month legal battle with a recent ruling against the USDA for premature deregulation of Monsanto's genetically engineered sugar beets

The learning impairment that characterizes Down syndrome and keeps people with the developmental condition from adapting to new environments could be reversed with a simple drug regimen, a new study suggests.

As you're reading this I'm sure your eyes are beginning to roll, indicating how peeved you're probably getting over yet another tirade on the subject of health-care-overhaul. Fear not. To prevent this article from joining the all-embracing tautology of...

Congress has done it. They've thrown women's reproductive rights under the bus. They've catered to religious extremists rather than protect the health of our mothers, daughters, and sisters

Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According to the media, she had attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide.

Federal health officials now say that 4,000 or more Americans likely have died from swine flu -- about four times the estimate they've been using.

Health insurance reform is about more than profits and deficits. It's about real people who need help. I demand the CEOs of the three largest insurance companies sit down with the people they've hurt, stop dropping our coverage, stop denying us care, and

In particular, the report concluded that livestock production accounts for 18%, or one-fifth, of global emissions. This figure is higher than all transportation sources combined......

The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), H.R. 1549/S. 619 would phase out, within two years of enactment, the common practice of continually feeding antibiotics important in human medicine to non-sick food animals.

THE WORLD'S dealing with a pandemic, but those on health care's front lines -- the very people the public looks to for advice during health emergencies -- seem sharply divided on the merits of the primary weapon produced to combat swine flu, vaccinations.