GAO: FDA yet to make safety changes post-Vioxx

AP - The Food and Drug Administration still hasn't restructured its staff to better monitor drug safety, more than three years after experts recommended key changes in the wake of the Vioxx scandal.

Reid: Abortion should not scuttle health care bill

Swine flu toll includes a few pets

British researchers: little evidence Tamiflu works

AP - British researchers say there is little evidence Tamiflu stops complications in healthy people who catch the flu, though public health officials contend the swine flu drug reduces flu hospitalizations and deaths.

US tops world in health care spending, results lag

AP - The United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on health care than the industrialized world's average, an economic group said Tuesday.

Experts: Colon cancer deaths could make big drop

AP - Colon cancer deaths could drop dramatically in the next decade because of better screening and treatment, according to an optimistic new prediction by top researchers.

Coroner: Self-help course led to woman's suicide

Groups try simple steps to avoid hospital rebound

AP - Talk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month — even worse, one in four patients with heart failure.

Group corrects statement about safety of hot toys

AP - A consumer group that reported several of the holiday season's must-have toys are unsafe wants to make a correction.