HEALTH HEADLINES

Rep. Bart Stupak has become the unofficial leader of a small but powerful bloc threatening to derail President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

A popular group of drugs prescribed to slow
bone loss may be putting some patients at an increased risk of hip
fractures if taken for more than five years.

The Food and Drug Administration says a Medtronic nerve stimulating implant failed to significantly reduce seizures in epilepsy patients.

President Barack Obama makes a closing argument today for health care reform.

President Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to vote "in the next few
weeks" on his final plan to revamp the nation's health care system,
even as centrist Democrats whose votes will be critical expressed
reservations.

Health departments say Georgians have just lost interest in getting the vaccine.