May 16 - By Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer
Researchers say the U.S. approved more new medicines in less time than Europe and Canada in the last decade, challenging long-standing criticisms that the Food and Drug Administration lags behind its peers in clearing important new drugs.
May 16 - By Lindsey Tanner, AP Medical Writer
An antibiotic widely used for bronchitis and other common infections seems to increase chances for sudden deadly heart problems, a rare but surprising risk found in a 14-year study.

May 16 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer
Coffee seems to be good for you. Or at least it's not bad, say researchers who led the largest-ever study of coffee and health.

May 16 - By Marilynn Marchione, AP Chief Medical Writer
One of life's simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear that java might raise the risk of heart disease, a big study finds the opposite: Coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf doesn't matter.

May 16 - By Sudhin Thanawala, Associated Press
Armando Rodriguez was warned several times to continue taking his tuberculosis medicine.

May 16 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children.

May 16 - By Jennifer C. Kerr, Associated Press
The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.
May 15 - By Paul Foy, Associated Press
Utah's chief technology officer has resigned following the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records from state computers by unknown hackers.

May 15 - By The Associated Press
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May 15 - By Cristina Silva, Associated Press
On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.

May 14 - By Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer
Look for a fundamental shift in how scientists hunt ways to ward off the devastation of Alzheimer's disease — by testing possible therapies in people who don't yet show many symptoms, before too much of the brain is destroyed.

May 14 - By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer
Aimee Copeland, a Georgia grad student, is fighting for her life because of the flesh-eating bacteria that infected her after she gashed her leg in a river two weeks ago. One of her legs was amputated and her fingers will be too, her father says, because of the spreading infection.
May 14 - By Charles Wilson, Associated Press
An Indiana diocese asked a federal court on Monday to reject a lawsuit by a former parochial school teacher who claims she was fired for violating Roman Catholic doctrine by using in vitro fertilization to try to get pregnant.

May 14 - By Associated Press
Lawyers for a French pharmaceutical group suspected in the deaths of at least 500 people argued Monday that a trial against their client should be halted as two separate cases should be rolled into one before the court can proceed.