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Emperor Akihito waves through the window of his limousine upon his arrival at the Imperial Palace after he was discharged from a hospital in Tokyo November 24, 2011, in this picture distributed by Kyodo.

Republican lawmakers' quest to expand a Medicaid privatization program statewide was dealt a blow this week after federal health officials said the state could not impose $10 monthly premiums on Medicaid beneficiaries.

Medication used to treat the most common form of childhood leukemia is in short supply, adding to the largest nationwide shortage of critical lifesaving hospital medications in nearly a decade.

In this Jan. 24, 2012, file photo, Brazil's former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends the inauguration of the new Minister of Science and Technology at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil.

The Public Health committee plans to hear from doctors and patients, hospital and pharmaceutical industry representatives, and an official of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration during Monday's Statehouse hearing.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston is stepping up efforts to sink a ballot question that would make physician-assisted suicide legal in Massachusetts.

Shyness, grief and eccentricity could suddenly become mental health disorders if the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders goes through as planned.

Connecticut Audubon Society Director of Education Michelle Eckman said the group will add more programs for families to get kids interested in conservation issues.

Savannah Aulger will never have snapshots with her father on her first birthday, on Christmas or at a school event.

Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.

A federal appeals court has denied a request to reconsider a lawsuit challenging a Texas law that requires doctors to perform a sonogram before an abortion.

FRIDAY, Feb. 10 -- It was just about three years ago that a strange new strain of flu first appeared in Mexico, then spread across the border to the United States and eventually much of the globe.

"I had a heroin overdose. I stopped breathing for too long, and I died. My heartbeat stopped and brain waves stopped," he said.

Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact.

Nearly 1 in 20 Americans older than 50 have artificial knees, or more than 4 million people, according to the first national estimate showing how common these replacement joints have become in an aging population.

The family of one of four people killed in a New York pharmacy holdup filed a $20 million lawsuit Thursday, alleging that a drug company that manufactures painkillers, a physician accused of improperly distributing the drugs, police officials and others were responsible for the victim's death.

Scientists say they "serendipitously" discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer quickly reversed Alzheimer's disease in mice.

Lawyer Johannes Oehlboeck, who represents six of them, says their separately given accounts are credible.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- An American Indian tribe says it will sue some of the world's largest beer makers for knowingly contributing to alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

A new study shows more and more U.S. adults are being told by their doctor to get off their duffs and exercise.