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Floods in Saudi Arabia have killed 48 people, and 900 more have been rescued, after the heaviest rainfall in years. None of the casualties had been among the millions attending the Hajj pilgrimage, said a spokesman for the Saudi interior ministry.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- As H1N1 cases are rising, so are bacterial pneumonia cases, health officials are finding. They're seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia.

There were about 17% fewer new infections worldwide in 2008, compared with 2001, but fewer than half of those infected began treatment, a World Health Organization and UNAIDS report says.

The Ross County Health District has added two additional H1N1 vaccination clinics to its schedule, the first of which will take place Monday.

There's little debate about screening women ages 50 to 74. So why do so many slip through the cracks? By Katherine Hobson The recent brouhaha over breast cancer screening is about recommendations—what different experts say women of different ages ...

From left to right, Senators Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine say that containing costs is among their highest priorities in health care reform.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (healthday News) -- A drug commonly used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis now also shows some promise in helping patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

WASHINGTON - Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada is still investigating an unusually high rate of a side effect known as anaphylaxis from a batch of glaxosmithkline Plc's swine flu vaccine, health officials said today.

JAB: Dr Ken Aswani is encouraging people to get the Swine Flu jab. Picture by Mark Cleveland By Martyn Dolton gps across the borough have been inundated with requests from locals wanting the Swine Flu jab.

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. says it is looking into building a cell-based vaccine manufacturing plant in the US to produce seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines.

BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- A Belgian man, who was thought to have been in a vegetative state but then found conscious for the past 23 years, said he got a "second birth" after doctors worked out a way for him to communicate.

Boston (DbTechNo) - According to researchers of a new study, we humans may actually be able to hear through our own skin. This as one may guess is a very weird study finding as we all know that we use our ears to hear things.

TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (healthday News) -- Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, ...

New York (CNN) -- A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.

Pfizer has been ordered to pay a total of $103 million in punitive damages to two women who were found to have breast cancer after they used hormonal drugs, state court officials in Philadelphia said Monday.

BY GIS The British Virgin Islands were represented at a recent workshop that focused on planning for the introduction of a H1N1 vaccine.

During the month of November we Americans, owing to our Thanksgiving Day holiday, are encouraged to be thankful. Thankful for whatever we have which we believe brings happiness.