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The level of flu activity across the nation has dropped for the fourth week in a row, federal health officials reported Monday, indicating that the second wave of the swine flu pandemic in the United States had peaked.

Sen. Harry Reid called the health care debate one of the most important in the nation's history. Washington (CNN) -- The US Senate on Monday opened what is expected to be a lengthy and rancorous debate on a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's health ...

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A special, intensive early intervention program for toddlers with autism succeeded in boosting IQ along with children's language and social skills, a new study shows.

The bad news from a new study is that two thirds of store-bought chicken was found to be contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria.

DUBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The annual Muslim haj pilgrimage has ended without the major flu outbreak feared by some experts and with only five deaths from the H1N1 flu virus out of 73 recorded cases, the Saudi health minister said.

PROVIDENCE, RI - Rep. Patrick Kennedy used the language of faith Monday to rally support for expanding the nation's health insurance system in his first public appearance since escalating a public feud with Rhode Island's Roman Catholic bishop over ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut officials are suing CVS/Pharmacy Inc., alleging it has sold food and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates at many of its Connecticut stores.

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of patients who have abdominal/pelvic CT scans receive additional unnecessary imaging tests that expose them to extra radiation, US researchers say.

WASHINGTON—Some Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism Monday of Merck & Co.'s arguments that shareholders waited too long to file securities lawsuits alleging the drug maker misrepresented the safety of painkiller drug Vioxx, ...

The changes that the health-care bills in Congress envision are years away - not soon enough to help the millions of unemployed people who, on Monday, lost their temporary federal subsidies for health insurance.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Market Center Management Co. on Monday announced plans to build and operate a $250 million Nashville Medical Trade Center on the site of the city's existing convention center.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The percentage of children born with Down syndrome has increased by about one percent per year since 1979, according to new findings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The newest guidelines regarding mammography have women across the nation a bit confused. After two decades of recommending that women have annual mammograms at the age of forty, the US Preventive Services Task Force has stated that ...

If you want to spend five or six hours trapped in a debate, try picking a fight with a pro-marijuana advocate who argues that a prescription should give an athlete a free pass when it's his time to fill a cup.

Kelly Elementary School fifth-grader Colin Morrison, left, takes the baton from classmate Kristen Cole in a relay race in this June 2008 file photo.

A worker at a cannabis dispensary packages medicinal marijuana in this file photo. As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, institutions are looking to educate potential caregivers about how to enter the cannabis industry the ...