The White House is endorsing an emerging bipartisan agreement on a bill aimed at curbing consumer health care costs.

Health officials in the U.S. territory of American Samoa say they will begin mass measles vaccinations later this week.

A group of West Virginians have gone to Canada to find affordable insulin.

Researchers say careless cellphone use can lead to facial cuts, bruises and fractures.

A government report says prices for prescription drugs edged down 1% last year, driven by declines for generics and slow growth for brand-name medications.

Birth control pills work great if women remember to take them every day but missing doses can mean a surprise pregnancy.

A company that claims it has the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer's disease made its case to scientists Thursday, disclosing more results to help explain why one study of it succeeded and another failed.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is setting a showdown vote next week on her bill empowering Medicare to negotiate prices for costly prescription drugs.

The vaccine alliance GAVI announced it would invest $178 million to create a global stockpile of about 500,000 Ebola vaccines, in a move health officials say could help prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control.