A mental patient died after workers at a North Carolina hospital left him in a chair for 22 hours without feeding him or helping him use the bathroom, said federal officials who have threatened to cut off the facility’s funding.

Men with big mugs are more aggressive, a new study of hockey players suggests.

Eighteen hospitals in California were fined for state health code violations in which patients received shoddy care that in some cases led to deaths.

Ventilator tubes treated with silver to reduce infections cut the risk of pneumonia in gravely ill patients by 36 percent, researchers reported on Tuesday.

A new analysis of government data is the first to link low-level arsenic exposure, possibly from drinking water, with Type 2 diabetes, researchers say.

Scientists say they’ve found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory.

Bacterial pneumonia may have killed most people during the 1918 flu pandemic, and antibiotics may be as crucial as flu drugs to fight any new pandemic, researchers say.

A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant.