The federal standards for acceptable levels of pharmaceutical residue in bottled water are the same as those for tap water there ... Read more…

Groups representing most of the nation's hospitals announced Tuesday they were suing federal health officials to block the enactment ... Read more…

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has upheld a second and a third University of Wisconsin-Madison patent covering embryonic ... Read more…

Dieters keep more weight off if they have to report to a nutrition counselor every month, according to the largest study on strategies ... Read more…

Larry the Cable Guy and Queen Latifah are among the latest celebrity spokespersons for commercial weight loss programs. But what ... Read more…

People with type 2 diabetes who participate in a program in which they're coached by a pharmacist show big improvements in how ... Read more…

Depression may promote stiffening of the heart tissue, which worsens heart failure, a study reports today. The worse someone's ... Read more…

Hubris? Arrogance? The need to take huge risks? How could someone as powerful and intelligent as New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer ... Read more…

Hong Kong's government has ordered all kindergartens and primary schools to close for two weeks amid a flu outbreak. Read more…

Sales of prescription drugs in the United States grew just 3.8% in 2007, marking the lowest growth rate since 1961, according ... Read more…

The death of an American Airlines passenger during a flight from Haiti to New York last month has cast a spotlight on the growing ... Read more…

Certain head and neck cancers may be tied to sex, marijuana, and thuman papillomavirus (HPV) type 16, new research shows. Read more…

A woman threw her two young children from a highway overpass during the morning rush before leaping off herself, police said, but all three survived the almost 7-meter fall into traffic. Read more…

The Hamas prime minister called for a period of calm with Israel, laying out conditions that would end attacks on Palestinian militants, open Gaza's borders and lift economic sanctions. Shortly after, Israeli troops killed 4 Palestinian militants. Read more…

The head of the slaughterhouse at the center of the largest beef recall in U.S. history acknowledged that cattle were illegally slaughtered at his plant and that cows too sick to stand were forced into the food supply. Read more…

Three soldiers were killed in a rocket attack on their combat outpost south of Baghdad on Wednesday, the military announced, bringing to 12 the number of military personnel who have been killed in Iraq over the past three days. Read more…

Southwest Airlines says it grounded 38 planes Tuesday in the wake of its recent admission that it had missed required inspections of some planes for structural cracks. Southwest also put three employees on leave. Read more…

CBS News confirms Geraldine Ferraro is stepping down from her position as a fundraiser for the Clinton campaign, according to a senior campaign source. Read more…

Authorities charged two suspects Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president. Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, was arrested and ordered held without bond. Read more…

The air in hundreds of U.S. counties is simply too dirty to breathe, the government said, ordering a multibillion-dollar expansion of efforts to clean up smog in cities and towns nationwide. Read more…

PC World - Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days. Read more…

Reuters - Mobile phone operators are seeking more talks to discuss Indian government security concerns which a newspaper said could lead to the termination of BlackBerry services in India, an industry official said on Wednesday. Read more…

InfoWorld - Acer unveiled a line of multimedia-optimized laptops in New York on Wednesday at its splashy, first-ever U.S. press conference, where it also announced the close of its acquisition of Dutch computer-maker Packard Bell. Read more…

Reuters - If you're French, under 20, and have a broadband Internet connection, you probably already know what to make of the spiked hair, skinny pants, and electric dance moves pulsing in cyberspace. Read more…

AP - Acer Inc., the Taiwanese computer maker that bought Gateway last year, said on Tuesday that it now aims to take laptop users as close as they can get to the high-definition home theater experience. Read more…