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Among the thousands of hospitals in the U.S., Medicare has identified 95 where elderly patients were most likely to suffer significant setbacks and another 97 hospitals where patients tended to have the smoothest recoveries.

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina campaigned at a Christian pregnancy care center in South Carolina Thursday. Opposition to abortion has become a prominent message in her campaign recently.

An agreement between New York's attorney general and four companies that operate urgent care centers in the state aims to curb confusing billing practices that left unwitting consumers on the hook.

With hours to go before the expiration of a state license that allows a Missouri health center to perform abortions, clinics across state lines say they are preparing for an influx of patients.

The American Freedom Defense Initiative is considered a hate group by some, but the group says its Muhammad-drawing contest in Garland, Texas, was an event celebrating free speech.

Gastric bypass surgery has increased ten-fold over the past decade, with more than 150,000 Americans getting the procedure every year. Most insurance companies, as well as Medicare, pay for it. Doctors say there's no question that the surgery works, but there are still significant risks.

A woman gave birth to eight babies in Bellflower, Calif., on Monday. She had 46 doctors, nurses and assistants on hand for the delivery by C-section. Dr. Harold Henry, chief of maternal and fetal medicine at the Bellflower Medical Center, weighs in.

A team of astrophysicists have found flares of light in Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's what they say and what it means for public health in the U.S.