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In last week's main feature, "The Forgotten Epidemic" about HIV/AIDS, local activist Duane Quintana said that sensationalized news coverage of HIV/AIDS often swallows accounts of the reality of living with HIV.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Breast ultrasounds found 100 percent of suspicious cancers in women under 40 who found lumps or other suspicious areas of the breast, offering a cheaper, less-invasive alternative to surgery or biopsies, ...

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Senate Republicans will challenge a Democratic plan to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, raising the specter of rationed care for seniors as lawmakers prepare to vote on ...

AP CARSON CITY, Nev.—Nevada health officials are warning residents of potential scams generated by the swine flu outbreak. Officials one such scam involves an e-mail being circulated that directs recipients to register with the US Centers for Disease ...

WASHINGTON -- The FDA has approved ecallantide (Kalbitor), the first subcutaneous treatment for acute hereditary angioedema (HAE) attacks, for patients 16 and older.

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (healthday News) -- A new study suggests that lonely people attract fellow "lonelies" and influence others to feel lonely, too.

Nearly half of patients in intensive care units globally contract infections, and 70 percent are being treated with antibiotics, a development that may aid the rise of drug-resistant viruses, researchers announced Tuesday.

If you are one of the millions of Americans who lost their job this year, you may be facing an insurmountable uptick in your health insurance costs, now that the federal program that subsidized huge premiums has expired.

Shares of the biopharmaceutical company Santarus (SNTS) jumped as much as 30% in early trading, although the spike had moderated a bit by midmorning, after the company announced FDA approval for an over-the-counter dose of the heartburn medication ...

Inspectors found unsanitary conditions at a Tyson Foods plant in Forth Worth, Tex., that makes seafood soups, says a US Food and Drug Administration warning letter sent to the company and posted on the agency's Web site.

WASHINGTON - A Missouri company said Tuesday its recalled dried cat food has sickened 21 cats and the pet food was distributed in multiple states in the South and along the East Coast.

Health-care forum panelists, from left, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Erin Kelly, a medical school student, and Vincent Mor, Department of Community Health chairman, listen to an opening speaker at Brown University on ...

With hundreds of city firefighters out of work every day for medical problems ranging from broken bones to more serious illnesses, the Fire Department is moving to reduce staffing at 49 engine companies in the five boroughs, city officials ...