Leo Sternbach, the inventor of a string of tranquilizers that included Valium, dies at his North Carolina home at the age of 97.

Sternbach, an award-winning chemist who helped the Swiss maker Roche Group build its U.S. headquarters in Nutley, N.J., after fleeing the Nazis during World War II, dies in Chapel Hill, N.C., after a short illness late Wednesday

Vice President Dick Cheney is working from home as he recuperates from knee surgery to repair aneurysms on the back of both knees.

Spokesman Steve Schmidt says Cheney is doing well after Saturday's procedure

Doctors warn that obesity increases a pregnant women's risk of miscarriage and other serious, even life-threatening complications such as gestational hypertension, preeclampsia and gestational diabetes.

They say the higher the body mass index a woman has, the higher the chance of a Caesarean section

Chestatee Emergency Medical Care is filled with patients signed on to a program charging clients a flat annual rate of $500 for unlimited visits.

Dr. Gary Berliner's patients can visit as often as they like without an appointment for checkups, X-rays, lab tests, even minor surgery

Vice President Dick Cheney will have surgery next weekend to treat an aneurysm in an artery behind his right knee.

The condition, discovered earlier this year during a routine checkup, needs to be treated "as to not become a problem over time," Steve Schmidt, counselor to the vice president, says