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An advocacy group has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services over its Medicaid coverage for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.

The case involves an 85-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. A judge in 2010 granted Fond du Lac County's request under Chapter 51 to place her in a locked psychiatric unit because she couldn't cooperate with health care providers at a nursing home.

A day after a study in the journal Lancet challenged the long-standing notion that raising levels of HDL - commonly known as "good" cholesterol - prevents heart attacks, top cardiology experts differed on whether the research really means the end of the road for therapies aimed at boosting HDL levels to beat back heart disease.

It's a "silent epidemic," an "unrecognized health crisis," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A new survey demonstrates increasing acceptance and utilization of acupuncture for treatment and health promotion.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released draft recommendations calling for all baby boomers to get a one-time blood test for the liver disease.

This month Michelle Davis will proudly take the stage to accept her high school diploma.

Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski , Poland's last communist leader who became infamous for imposing a harsh military crackdown in 1981, says he is extremely ill and close to death.

Forget the bug-eyed green aliens with advanced technology. Life on other planets may exist in forms too tiny to see, if mysterious tiny organisms like those found under our oceans live elsewhere.

This time of year, shareholders bombard corporations with suggestions about executive pay, governance and other arcana.

Voters in Richmond are set to decide whether to make the San Francisco Bay area city the nation's first municipality to tax soda and other sugary beverages to help fight childhood obesity.

The Obama administration is asking a presidential commission to help decide an ethical quandary: Should the anthrax vaccine and other treatments being stockpiled in case of a bioterror attack be tested in children? "We can't just assume that what we have for adults works for children," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told the ... (more)

Cancer patient Kathy Watson voted Republican in 2008 and believes the government has no right telling Americans to get health insurance.

A Catholic college in Ohio has apparently become the nation's first to drop its health care plan because it opposes parts of the federal health care law signed by President Barack Obama.

A second case of flesh-eating bacteria has been reported in South Carolina as a Georgia woman continues to battle the same kind of infection.

Good news for those who used to have been limited by their disabilities: soon, you will be able to enjoy the pleasures of camping and touring in national parks - with yourself behind the wheel.

A Colorado advocacy group is spending thousands of dollars to convince people that smoking pot is safer than drinking alcohol.

Good news for those who used to have been limited by their disabilities: soon, you will be able to enjoy the pleasures of camping and touring in national parks - with yourself behind the wheel.

The undertaking is the first of what could be four or five years of work to redo the casino resort,... Using only her thoughts, she directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to... Chuck Brown, who styled a unique mix of funk, soul and Latin party sounds to create go-go music in... Abridged Ruben Amaro update: - MRI showed no ... (more)

Researchers at the University of Missouri say they've identified an extract found in celery and other produce as a potential weapon against breast cancer.