Posted: 1:56 PM Scientists are creating tests to show when it's time for people with early Alzheimer's disease to stop driving.

Posted: 1:55 PM A striking new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.

Updated: 1:53 PM One in five Medicare patients ends up back in the hospital within a month of discharge, a large study found, and that practice costs billions of dollars a year.

Posted: 10:53 AM Doctor say they may have piece of medical equipment which could giving patients with vertigo and dizziness, their lives back.

Posted: 3:05 PM The government ordered 14 unapproved narcotic painkillers off the market Tuesday, prescription versions of potent morphine, hydromorphone and oxycodone.

Posted: 2:53 PM ALERT! Food recall

Posted: 2:47 PM Warning to weekend warriors: Swim-bike-run triathlons pose at least twice the risk of sudden death as marathons do, the first study of these competitions has found.

Posted: 2:45 PM The following recall has been announced because the products may be contaminated with salmonella.

Posted: 1:55 PM Who should ultimately decide what treatment is medically necessary -- a doctor or a state health agency?

Posted: 10:06 AM The Georgia Department of Labor will offer as many as 80 summer internships to college sophomores, junior and seniors this summer.

Updated: 10:40 AM The Berenstain Bears, national “spokesbears” for Prevent Child Abuse America, posed for pictures and handed out books to area kindergarteners following the Winds of Change press conference Friday morning at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee.

Posted: 10:34 AM Doctors are puzzling over what seems to be an increase in the number of children with kidney stones, a condition some blame on kids' love of cheeseburgers, fries and other salty foods.

Updated: 11:01 AM Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter.

Updated: 10:22 AM It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken.

Posted: 10:29 AM Magnetic Resonance Imaging technologists conducted their first MRI scan at the Department of Veterans Affairs Joint Ambulatory Care Center Monday.

Posted: 10:17 AM A new report by D.C. health officials says that at least 3 percent of residents in the nation's capital are living with HIV or AIDS and every mode of transmission is on the rise.

Posted: 9:54 AM A handful of children once severely allergic to peanuts now can munch them without worry. Scientists retrained their bodies to tolerate peanuts by feeding them tiny amounts of the very food that endangered them.

Posted: 10:44 AM As many as two of every five men whose prostate cancer was caught through a PSA screening test have tumors too slow-growing to ever be a threat, says a new study that raises more questions about the controversial tests.

Posted: 10:42 AM Doctors screening women for ovarian cancer were able to pick up the disease about two years earlier than normal, according to a British study published Wednesday.

Posted: 1:32 PM Recessions gripping economies around the world will hit men harder than women as job insecurity threatens an inherent sense of masculinity, damaging mental health, a British researchers said this month.

Posted: 12:56 PM Think your doctor knows which drug - or surgery or even diagnostic test - works best? Think again. Half the time, there's little if any good evidence comparing one to another. And one of medicine's little secrets is that brand-new drugs don't have to work any better than cheap old ones to be approved for sale.

Posted: 11:38 AM Connecticut’s attorney general says six companies have agreed to stop manufacturing baby bottles that contain Bisphenol-A, a chemical some studies suggest may be harmful to infants.

Posted: 11:32 AM Ever wonder why sharks get several rows of teeth and people only get one? Some geneticists did, and their discovery could spur work to help adults one day grow new teeth when their own wear out.

Posted: 11:31 AM A hen swaggers over a crate of eggs in the farm hall of Walter Hoehne, egg producer and head of the organic farmer association CW Oeko Ei GmbH on March 20, 2008 in Vohburg, Germany.

Posted: 11:28 AM Need an MRI scan? Tell the doctor if you use a nicotine patch or any other medication patch - or you'll risk a burn during the MRI.