Posted: 7:52 AM - Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar.

Updated: 5:18 AM - Pretty soon your usual vending machine may look more like a traffic light with sugar-loaded sodas highlighted in red and water in green. It's all part of Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln's plan to get the capital city hooked on healthy vending machines.

Posted: 06/18/2013 - The results of the latest national health survey by the government finds the percentage of smokers in the United States has dropped to 18 percent in 2012.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - Doctors say it'll be quite some time before solid donor organs like lungs and livers can be grown in a lab, but they're working toward that for the future.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - The latest effort by a Boston hospital underscores a growing willingness to do transplant surgery to enhance lives, not just save them.

Posted: 06/17/2013 - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a next-generation silicone breast implant from Johnson & Johnson unit Mentor.

Posted: 06/14/2013 - The 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who fought for a lung transplant still has a difficult journey ahead. The transplant isn't a cure for her cystic fibrosis, and new lungs don't tend to last as long as other transplanted organs.

Posted: 06/13/2013 - Legionella bacteria was detected in the water system at the VA Nebraska Western-Iowa Health Care System’s Grand Island facility.

Posted: 06/13/2013 - A 10-year-old girl ailing with cystic fibrosis is recovering from a transplant of adult lungs made available to her by a judge's controversial ruling that expanded her options for lifesaving surgery.

Updated: 06/12/2013 - U.S. health officials say doctors should consider giving a daily AIDS drug to another high risk group to prevent infection -- people who shoot heroin, methamphetamines or other injection drugs.