By MATTHEW PERRONE and BEN WIEDER For more than a decade, members of a little-known group called the Pain Care Forum have blanketed Washington with messages touting prescription painkillers’ vital…
By ROBERT JABLON Contaminated medical instruments are suspected in a “superbug” outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital that has infected at least seven patients, two of whom died. More than…
By MARTHA MENDOZA This undated photo released by Google shows a contact lens Google is testing to explore tear glucose. After years of scalding soldering hair-thin wires to miniaturize electronics,…
By LORI HINNANT Jean-Claude Mas, the founder of Poly Implant Prothese, leaves the courthouse of Marseille, southern France, Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. A court has ruled that the French businessman…
By BARBARA ORTUTAY In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo provided by Showtime, Bertolt Meyer, a social psychologist for the University of Zurich, poses for a photo in New York.…
By DAVID ESPO Speaker of the House John Boehner, R- Ohio, pauses during a news conference after a House Republican Conference meeting about the ongoing budget fight on Capitol Hill…
By LINDSEY TANNER In this March 22, 2013 photo, Dr. Pier Giulianotti, chief of minimally invasive and robotic surgery at the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System in…
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE In this Monday, March 11, 2013 photo, Atlanta cardiologist Dr. Spencer King holds a replacement heart valve during a demonstration at an American College of Cardiology conference…
