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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.

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

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, ...

Medicare fraud is a multibillion-dollar business preying on an ever-increasing number of retiring baby boomers who often are being charged for medical treatments and products they don't need and ...

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.

A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care this week concludes that the rate of diabetes will double in the next 25 years and the costs of dealing with this epidemic will triple over the same period.

Do you turn to nutrition-based solutions plus mask and goggles when and if the latest flu vaccines no longer work against mutated viruses?

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.

Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation's airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones.

A new drug for seasonal flu from the house of giant drug-manufacturer Novartis, Agriflu has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.

Henderson, NV - As kids sit on Santa's lap at Henderson's Galleria Mall, tears are okay but sniffles could send Santa away.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

* 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.

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.