A University of Iowa doctor who perfected a nonsurgical treatment for curing clubfoot in infants has died. University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore says Dr. Ignacio V. Ponseti died Sunday at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City following complications from a stroke. Ponseti was 95. Clubfoot is a congenital defect in which a baby's foot ...

A work accident leaves a woman blind in one eye. As she copes with the loss, within months the vision in the other, previously uninjured eye begins to blur, and the eye becomes red and inflamed. The rare eye condition, known as sympathetic ophthalmia, occurs when vision is lost in one ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Makers of medical isotopes used in scores of diagnostic imaging tests are scrambling to find new suppliers after Canadian health officials temporarily closed a nuclear reactor last week that produces a third of the world's supply. Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd shut down its 50-year-old reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, after a small leak of heavy water ...