It has been just over a year since she finally got off a long waiting list and had her arthritic left knee replaced with the latest metal and plastic version.

It is the strongest guidance given on the issue by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which released its new guidelines yesterday. The academy also recommends low-fat milk for one-year-olds and wider cholesterol testing.

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The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on the fringe theory that mercury in vaccines triggers autism — a theory never proved and rejected by mainstream science. Mercury hasn't been in childhood vaccines since 2001.

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it may rescind its guidanceon tar and nicotine yields in cigarettes issued more than 40 years agoon the basis of a test it no longer views as reliable.

A relatively new tool for treating Parkinson's disease is showing remarkable promise. It's not a cure, but it can reduce the tremors and other symptoms and help patients gain more control.

Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.

Tweens and teens in dating relationships are experiencing significant levels of various forms of abuse, many don't know the warning signs of an abusive relationship, and many parents don't know what's going on in those relationships, a new survey says.

The family of a woman whose death in a Brooklyn psychiatric ward was caught on surveillance footage say they intend to file a $25 million lawsuit.

A Corpus Christi hospital says 14 babies in its neonatal intensive care unit received overdoses of the pediatric version of the blood thinner Heparin.

Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

Sellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected asmuch as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based onprescriptions from doctors who actually were dead, some for 10 years ormore, a congressional investigation has found.

Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government's most urgentwarning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they cancause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patientsincapacitated.

A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat somepatients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improvesurvival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread.