The insurance industry plans on Wednesday to propose a series of steps the companies say would let more individuals obtain coverage.

  ?Overtreated,?by Shannon Brownlee, is the best description I have yet read of a huge economic problem that we know how to solve ?but is so often misunderstood.

  Responding to concerns in the food industry, companies developing cloned livestock have come up with a system to track the animals as they move through farms and slaughterhouses.

  The Frenchwoman who received the world?s first partial face transplant regained nearly full use of her facial muscles within 18 months.

  A plan that would provide coverage to an estimated 70 percent of the 5.1 million persistently uninsured Californians passed the State Assembly on Monday.

  In a move he says is necessary to trim the city?s waistline, Gavin Newsom has proposed charging big stores a fee when they sell sugar-sweet soda.

  Federal health officials said they were investigating dozens of blood infections in at least two states that have been linked to contaminated medical syringes.

  More than winter blahs, seasonal depression is recognized and treatable.

  Frederic Riccardi is an attack dog disguised as a health insurance counselor.

  The new Merck/Merial Manual for Pet Health: Home Edition is a 1,345-page book likely to find readership in an animal-crazed nation.

  Among the parents of obese children ages 6 to 11, only 13 percent described their child as very overweight, according to a new study.

  Researchers have found that there is no way to know for sure which blows will lead to a concussion.

  Patients in intensive care units are so busy being poked, prodded, jabbed and medicated that they rarely have time for sleep.

  Minnesotans and residents of the other Upper Great Plains states have some of the lowest mortality rates in the country.