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KARACHI - A prostitute born and brought up in Karachi's Napier Road red-light district, Shumaila never heard about HIV and AIDS until recently.

Phyllis Savage, a seasoned ICU nurse at my hospital, wasted no time getting her seasonal flu shot this fall. But when the H1N1 swine flu vaccine first came out, she wondered if she should get it, unsure about its safety.

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.

GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Countries should phase out the use of Stavudine, the most widespread antiretroviral, because of "long-term, irreversible" side-effects in HIV patients including wasting and a nerve disorder, ...

The Nov. 23 editorial titled "Prevention: 1 oz." questions whether the newly published US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations will lead to a rationing of health care, implying, incorrectly, that health care is not already rationed.

If you are a woman with private health insurance, you may not realize what you are about to lose if a current version of the health care overhaul becomes law.

Nov. 27, 2009 -- If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and spending on the disease will nearly triple, a new study shows.

AP CALEXICO, Calif.—Federal authorities say they seized more than 6000 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $6 million hidden within a shipment of door knobs in a truck at the US-Mexico Border.

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 ...

Portland officials are no longer asking residents on the west side of the city to boil their water. As Rob Manning reports, test results Sunday were negative for e coli bacteria.

In this year of the H1N1 flu, Santa's gloves are coming off. The big guys in the red suits are telling each other to go barehanded at public events -- and to keep washing those hands as often as they can.

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.

SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korean health authorities on Monday reported its first case of a patient infected with the A/H1N1 flu strain resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.

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 ...

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 ...

After casting a crucial vote on the health debate, US Sen. Blanche Lincoln didn't return to the break she may have wanted when she came home to Arkansas.

* The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center made a public announcement in October 2009 that it would close the 123-bed UPMC Braddock Hospital on January 31, 2010.