A federal commission votes to close one of the top Army hospitals, as it begins its second day of deliberations on plans to restructure U.S. military bases.

Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC has treated presidents and foreign leaders, as well as veterans and soldiers, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan

A test released Wednesday shows that the drug misoprostol is almost as effective as surgery for removing tissue that remains in the uterus after a failed pregnancy.

The drug, called Cytotec by manufacturers G.D. Searle and Pfizer Inc., has a success rate of around 85 percent, says Jun Zhang of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the chief author of the study

A new study published in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests that the way people use their brains could actually lead to Alzheimer's disease.

"It may be the normal cognitive function of the brain that leads to Alzheimer's later in life. This was not a relationship we had even considered," said Randy Buckner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University in St. Louis who led the study

A new study examining the placebo effect shows patients will feel better if they believe they are taking painkillers, even if their doses contain no medication

A study says Tuesday that heroin users cannot avoid the painful withdrawal of breaking their habit by going under anesthesia because doing so can be dangerous.

Publicized as a quick way to withdraw from heroin addiction, the $15,000 treatment involves making the user unconscious and rapidly administering an antagonist drug that neutralizes heroin's effects, Reuters reports