WASHINGTON/CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters ) - Francis Collins, who helped map the human genome, did not get around to having his own genes analyzed until last summer. And he was surprised by what he learned.

ALEXANDRIA, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made another push to sell his healthcare overhaul to a skeptical public on Tuesday, calling it a victory over special interests that will help the middle-class and defending the “courage” of legislators who backed it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. advisers heard evidence on the effects of menthol cigarettes on Tuesday as they began a year-long review of the popular but controversial flavoring under the government’s new tobacco powers.

LONDON (Reuters) - Regular mammographic screening for breast cancer saves the lives of two women for every one who is given unnecessary treatment, scientists said on Wednesday, in a study which adds to a global row over screening programs.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials have sought to contain public outrage after workers at a hospital dumped 21 dead fetuses and infants’ bodies near a river bank.

CHICAGO (Modern Healthcare) - Reducing patients’ risk of unnecessary readmission to the hospital after discharge is a lot like untangling the spaghetti of wires tucked behind most people’s television/sound systems. At least that has been the experience at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant “superbug” if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two human genes associated with breast and ovarian cancers cannot be patented because they are a product of nature, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday had a blunt message for health insurers — the new healthcare law requires that they not drop coverage for children with certain pre-existing conditions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats are pushing to shore up support for the U.S. healthcare overhaul signed into law by President Barack Obama, but the final public verdict will largely depend on how smoothly it is put into effect.