HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the 83-year-old who resigned the presidency last year due to ailing health. Chan, speaking at the end of her first visit to Cuba, said she met with Castro for more two hours on Tuesday during which he displayed a ...

Medicare officials are backing off a policy that pushed many doctors to use a $2,000 injectable drug for a potentially blinding eye disorder, over a similar treatment that costs about $50. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said late Tuesday it will reverse a decision from ...

The Swiss government proposed Wednesday to restrict or even ban assisted suicide groups such as Dignitas in a bid to cut down on 'suicide tourism.' Scores of foreigners travel to Switzerland every year to end their lives with the help of such groups, taking advantage of the Alpine nation's comparatively liberal laws on assisted suicide. "As a country, we ...