In 1969, Dr. Denton A. Cooley took an artificial heart from the lab of Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and started a feud that ended up on the cover of Life magazine. Now they?ve made up.

  With patients living longer, the government is making hospices repay hundreds of millions of dollars to Medicare.

  Jessica Snyder Sachs?s capable overview of the global war on germs could hardly be more timely even if it did not call to mind a variety of other recent headlines.

  Sometimes the will to help is what matters, even if the remedy isn?t perfect.

  When someone says life isn?t worth living, pay attention.

  For decades, doctors have dismissed growing pains as normal signs of growing in small children.

  Are video games really bad for children? Yes, no and maybe.

  A new study has found a link between asthma and post-traumatic stress disorder, though the reasons remain unknown.

  The newest data showed that the Xience V stent outperformed the market leader in preventing coronary arteries from reclogging over a two-year period in more than 600 patients.

  The disease is being transmitted to infants, older adults, women and heterosexual men at an epidemic pace, according to city health officials.

  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton?s proposal is similar to those of Senator Barack Obama and John Edwards in terms of spending, goals and differences with President Bush?s AIDS policy.

  The board of Grady Memorial Hospital effectively voted itself out of business Monday, the first step in at least a short-term escape from insolvency.

  The antioxidant beta carotene may help prevent mental decline in men, a new study reports, but only with long-term use.