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Future doctors aren’t learning much about the unique health needs of gays and lesbians, a survey of medical school deans suggests.

Abbott Laboratories says it is withdrawing its diet pill Meridia in the U.S. and Canada, almost a year after studies showed the drug increases the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients with a history of heart disease.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now.

A drug treatment for fetuses with an adrenal disorder may also prevent unborn babies from growing up to become lesbians.

Should healthy people with low cholesterol take a pill to lower their cholesterol even more in hopes of preventing heart problems? The question is dividing heart doctors and confusing patients.

Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells - a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday.

Doctors reported gains against nearly every form of cancer at a conference that ended this week. Yet when Will Thomas heard about an advance against prostate cancer, he wanted to know just one thing: "Is it a cure?"

Bone marrow transplants are undergoing a quiet revolution: No longer just for cancer, research is under way to ease the risks so they can target more people with diseases from sickle cell to deadly metabolic disorders.

Hallucinogenic drugs, famous but condemned in the 1960s, might one day help doctors treat conditions like cancer anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Having a bad reaction to penicillin as a child doesn’t guarantee you’re still allergic decades later.