Medicines

by Noam Levey Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate...

Last week's Biggest Loser was a total letdown -- dragging out for two hours and culminating in a to-be-continued, so we didn't even see who, if anyone, was going home. I don't want to sit through two hours of Biggest......

by Mark Silva Dr. Sanjay Gupta won't be making any White House calls. The television medical reporter and surgeon whose name was floated as a candidate for surgeon general in the Obama administration, has withdrawn from consideration -- says the......

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama, announcing the appointments of Dr. Margaret Hamburg as Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and Dr. Joshua Sharfstein as the Principal Deputy Commissioner today, also used his weekly Internet and radio...

by Mark Silva We have seen the future, and it is disturbing. The journey of the Tara, a scientific vessel set adrift in the ice packs of the Arctic Ocean, has produced some stunning photography -- the gorgeous work of......

Sounding a bit like the nation's physician, President Barack Obama stuck Wednesday night to standard protocol in addressing the first domestic public-health emergency of his 100-day-old administration. The swine flu outbreak came up right at the start...

Old poster, now new show... Among the network's new shows? This: "Parenthood," based on the '89 movie, and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer or e-p'ing; Howard was ep of the old Steve Martin flick too... The cast: Peter Krause,......

Will this great actor beat "Gunsmoke?" (Nicole Rivelli/NBC) ...And don't expect to see "Chuck," "My Name is Earl" or "Medium" there either. The network just sent out its new season release - head to the jump for EVERYTHING -......

by Mark Silva Lastly this evening, as Elizabeth Edwards' memoir-promoting tour reaches a certain cable crescendo tonight on Larry King Live, we are listening to some of the reflections of a woman battling terminal cancer, a woman who lost a......

(Getty) Herewith the line-up, gang. And go to the jump for show description. Quickie (quickie) analysis: Courteney Cox! Rebecca Romijn! Reiko Aylesworth! Sonya Walger! Elizabeth Mitchell! And Patricia Heaton! You go, girls. Oh, and Kelsey Grammer too. DAY...

(Mitchell Haaseth / NBC) Do not adjust your set, etc. This is really the CBS lineup and that's really "Medium" on it. "Medium" has joined the lineup. 'Twas expected when NBC dropped it yesterday. Here's the fall on CBS.......

by Peter Nicholas President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive and ultimately futile procedures performed on people who are about to die and don't stand to......