A new study suggests that pregnant women may want to reduce their caffeine intake or cut it out entirely.

  The device designed for use in bile ducts is often placed in arteries and veins, even though it has undergone scant testing for such uses.

  Gay men reacted strongly to a study saying they were more likely to acquire a potentially lethal strain of bacteria, which seemed to cast an all too familiar stigma on their sexuality.

  A new study showing an increased risk of blood clots among women using a contraceptive skin patch has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to add that finding to the drug?s label.

  Americans with prostate cancer are traveling abroad for a treatment that is not approved in the United States.

  Regulation and oversight has not kept pace with the development of new genetic tests and efforts to sell them directly to consumers.

  Scientists have discovered a previously unknown virus and strongly linked it with the most aggressive form of skin cancer.

  Scientists at a small biotechnology company say they have used cloning to create human embryos from the skin cells of two men.

  The state has an unusually high number of people with no health insurance, doctors are hard to come by and safety nets are eroding.

  New Jersey?s attorney general has begun investigating whether the biotechnology giant violated patient confidentiality laws in its effort to sell its drug Enbrel.

  Bausch &Lomb, the eye health company, said it had acquired a rival, eyeonics Inc., for an undisclosed amount.

  The makers of some antidepressants never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, a new study suggests.

  A new debate is emerging over whether breast implants constitute the kind of annuity medicine that will entail regular surgical tuneups, exposing patients to increased medical risk and out-of-pocket expenses.

  The March of Dimes, one of the nation?s oldest nonprofit groups, is changing the name of Walk America, its biggest fund-raising event, to March for Babies as part of an effort to increase public awareness of its mission.