CHICAGO – The United States has passed an important milestone in the fight against cancer, researchers reported Tuesday: For the first time, the recorded rate of new cancer cases has fallen for both men and women. Read more...

Traces of the industrial chemical melamine have been detected in samples of top-selling U.S. infant formula, but federal regulators insist the products are safe. Read more...

CHICAGO – Blacks waiting for a liver transplant used to be more likely to die compared to whites. Now they have the same chance of getting a life-saving organ under a nationwide system that puts the sickest patients first, a new study found. Read more...

WASHINGTON – A strategy of testing adults every year for HIV and immediately treating every person found to be infected could virtually end the AIDS epidemic in Africa in about a decade, new research suggests. Read more...

WASHINGTON – Taxpayers have shelled out at least $200 million since 2004 for medications that have never been reviewed by the government for safety and effectiveness but are still covered under Medicaid, an Associated Press analysis of federal data has found. Millions of private patients are taking such drugs, as well. Read more...

Cancer wasn’t about to cancel Bonita Schamp’s chicness. Read more...

Americans are getting savvier about eating right and exercising, according to “Nutrition and You: Trends 2008,” a nationwide survey of 783 men and women by the American Dietetic Association, Read more...

CHICAGO – American children with food allergies are suffering life-threatening – and completely avoidable – reactions because manufacturers mislabel their products and regulators fail to police store shelves, a Chicago Tribune investigation has found. Read more...

Using a newly adopted federal health coding change, the state Health Department plans to start tracking infections of the potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria known as MRSA. Read more...

Since the cold and flu season is upon us, KidsPost asked our expert on all things gross, pediatrician Howard Bennett, to give us his views on the inner workings of the nose. Read more...

Vitamin C or E pills do not help prevent cancer in men, concludes the same big study that last week found these supplements ineffective for warding off heart disease. Read more...

WASHINGTON – The odds of having a premature baby are lowest in Vermont and highest in Mississippi. Read more...

NEW ORLEANS – Exercise can do a lot of good for most people, but it apparently isn’t much help to those with heart failure, the fastest-growing heart problem in the United States. Read more...

NEW YORK – Stent patients who take the blood thinner Plavix along with certain heartburn drugs may face a greater risk of heart attack, a stroke and other dangerous events, according to a study released Tuesday. Read more...

NEW ORLEANS – Obese children as young as 10 had the arteries of fortysomethings and other heart abnormalities that greatly raise their risk of heart disease, say doctors who used ultrasound tests to take a peek inside. Read more...