A hospital closure can send tremors through a city or town, leaving residents fearful about how they will be cared for in emergencies and serious…

After 45 years of providing health care in rural western Missouri, Sac-Osage Hospital is being sold piece by piece.Ceiling tiles are going for 25 cents,…

Several of the nation's biggest health insurers have hiked earnings expectations for 2015 after blowing past first-quarter forecasts and heading into a…

The Food and Drug Administration has filed a court order against medical device giant Medtronic over repeated problems with its implantable drug pumps…

A flu strain deadly to chickens and turkeys is striking farms in the West and Midwest. This week, it hit an Iowa facility with millions of egg-laying hens. No one knows how it's entering houses.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called it "a complex and ongoing multistate outbreak of listeriosis occurring over an extended period of several years."

Florida's Department of Health has confirmed two cases of measles in two unvaccinated adults in Indian River County.Officials said Sunday that both…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ending years of last-minute fixes, President Barack Obama on Thursday signed legislation permanently changing how Medicare pays doctors,…

Millions of older people are getting tests they don’t need to prove they are healthy enough to have cataracts removed, a new study finds. The excess…

The health care sector has become the hot target for hackers in recent months, according to researchers at Symantec, a leading cybersecurity company that…