ROME — Spring allergies might have been responsible for the pained look on Hillary Clinton's face while watching Navy SEALs storm Osama bin Laden's compound last weekend. A widely circulated photo of Clinton, President Barack Obama and other senior officials watching the operation live from the White House situation room ...

WASHINGTON — It's taken longer for the Food and Drug Administration to decide what "gluten-free" food is than it took to build the underground Chunnel connecting Britain and France. Now, Capitol Hill lawmakers are about to get a taste of what seven years of delaying the issue means to millions of ...

Pregnant women who are exposed to a chemical found in plastic water bottles are more likely to give birth to babies who experience wheezing early in life, according to research presented this week at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.

 Bisphenol A, or BPA, can sometimes be found in water bottles, ...

The economic cost of asthma — which includes both medical expenses and lost productivity — reached $56 billion in 2007, according to the latest study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The incidence of asthma in the U.S. population climbed to 8.2% in 2009 from 7.3% in 2001, the ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Surgical and patient examination gloves that have cornstarch powder on them or are made of natural rubber latex should be banned because of the serious threat they pose to patients and health care workers, according to the advocacy group Public Citizen. The non-profit consumer group last ...