WHEN Diane Klenke was told five years ago that she had pancreatic cancer, she was given three months to live. "The doctor told me to go home and put my affairs in order and that was it," Ms. Klenke, now 52, remembered.

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It was just one line in a campaign manifesto, and it hardly seemed the most significant or contentious.

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A secretive operation by federal forces netted 10 mayors and 18 other top officials in Michoacan state, escalating President Felipe Calderon's battle against cartels ahead of the July 5 elections.

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Rates are particularly high among young African-Americans, according to new federal data.

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A new program in Goa, India, trains laypeople to identify and treat depression and anxiety and send them to community health clinics.

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Top health officials are urging parents to get their children vaccinated, and with good reason. All children deserve protection against infectious diseases.

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Medical experts have been saying for years that caffeine acts as a potent diuretic. Is it true?

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African children like Karlo may actually have more at stake in the outcome of the presidential election than children in the United States.

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A type of growth that is more common in the U.S. than previously thought is much more dangerous than polyps and is harder to find, researchers say.

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Surely the best message we can derive from the Dr. Robert Jarvik episode is that it may be time to rethink the advertising of prescription drugs

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Dozens of measures, individually or together, can help to lower cholesterol. See what worked for one Times reporter.

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A doctor faces three felony counts in a case that has sent a shudder through the field of transplant surgeons.

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The recommendation expands by about 30 million the number of children who should get annual influenza shots.

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Set apart by their African features, the servants of Yemen, known as "Al Akhdam," form a kind of hereditary caste at the bottom of the country's social order.

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Multiple-drug-resistant tuberculosis cases in parts of the former Soviet Union have reached the highest rates ever recorded.

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Dealt a bad hand at age 29, I decided my only option was hope.

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What age is the right age to have "the talk," not just about where babies come from, but also about sex and AIDS?

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The mortgage crisis has put "for sale" signs in front of houses across the country — including so-called McMansions — the large, expensive, often tasteless homes that have taken up so much suburban space over the last couple of decades.

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The Democratic candidates' health plans are not specific enough to determine how the uninsured would respond.

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During a year of being paid to give talks to doctors about an antidepressant, a psychiatrist comes to terms with the fact that taking pharmaceutical money can cloud your judgment.

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Alfred E. Mann is betting nearly $1 billion of his own money that he can succeed where Pfizer failed.

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Britain is wrestling with how to handle patients who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health service.

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A patient of one of my psychiatric residents recently caught him off guard with a challenging question: "Have you ever been in psychotherapy yourself?"

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Bedsores may seem simple, but they are a serious matter for medical professionals.

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When does fairness demand that a newspaper walk down the middle in a scientific dispute, and when does responsibility demand that it take sides?

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