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The Student Health Center is hoping to squeeze in at least one more H1N1 clinic before the semester ends if shipments continue to arrive as they have.

Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.

On the eve of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, the medicine is getting better, but human behavior is not. AIDS deaths in Florida have declined for two consecutive years, thanks to drug therapies, but infections hold steady, ...

You wouldn't buy a second car when one would do. Nor an extra airplane ticket when you're traveling solo. But if your son topples from his skateboard and breaks an arm, ...

Cases of diabetes will soar and the cost of treating the disease will triple, according to a new report. (CNN) -- The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years, ...

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

DNA testing of the bacteria found in a Portland drinking-water reservoir might point to the source of contamination. But whether the contamination caused illnesses in people may never be known, health experts said ...

Agriflu will be administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in prefilled syringes, the FDA says. (CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.

The Centers for Disease Control, in lieu of the upcoming holiday season and the huge amounts of travel associated with it, has launched a campaign to assure that travelers are well educated about H1N1, more casually known as Swine Flu.

While the need for blood tends to rise during the holiday season, donations tend to fall. That's a paradox the the American Red Cross has been hoping to overcome, as it has held a ...

Flu gives Mr. Claus a reason to pause as efforts are made to keep the chief elf, and his young visitors, in good health. By JEANNETTE SCOTT, Staff Writer Santa has a Christmas wish of his own this year: He hopes children and their parents will observe ...

When Paul Carroll lost his job in January, he and his wife, Kate, had a difficult, expensive choice: Do they keep their health insurance through his former employer, even though it would mean bearing the full cost of ...

Forging new path Rev. Linda Lee Snyder, the interim pastor of The First Baptist Church in Attleboro, addresses the worshipers earlier this month.

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria), 2 Political Junkies They'll be a protest today at UPMC headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh to demand that Braddock Hospital stay open.