Ohio’s prison agency says it wants doctors or other medical professionals to assist with executions, saying it will help promote humane procedures.

There’s one thing all Americans share at birth. It’s the experience of having a heel stick, a jab that draws blood used for all types of screening. How much can doctors learn from a few drops of blood squeezed from the heel?

A 20-year-old pregnant woman has become the first Columbus fatality in the swine flu epidemic. The woman died early this morning at Doctors Hospital.