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TRIAGE Young children, here playing near where swine flu shots will be given in Texas, are one of the high-risk groups. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

When a government advisory panel put out new recommendations last week that said women under age 50 need not be screened for breast cancer, the calls began flowing to Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's office.

By Madison Park, CNN Two guidelines have been issued to reduce screening for breast and cervical cancer this week. (CNN) -- It's been a confusing week for women.

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims crowd the roads toward the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday. Mecca, Saudi Arabian (CNN) -- A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, ...

President Obama's vision for making health care in America more effective and efficient collided for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the nation's health-care system.

Those promoting Thursday's Great American Smokeout 2009 have their work cut out for them. That's because cigarette use among Americans, after declining for decades, has remained virtually unchanged for five straight years, ...

Linda Tolkin went for yearly mammograms and conducted self-examinations regularly before she discovered she had Stage 3 breast cancer.

Health officials say a Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has spread between hospital patients. Five patients on a unit treating people with severe underlying health conditions at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, ...

The necklaces spilling out of plastic bags looked like Mardi Gras beads, but a color-coded chart told a different, less festive story.

The University of Nebraska Board of Regents cast a tie vote on human embryonic stem cell research on Friday, defeating a rare effort to limit such research at a university system beyond what state and federal laws allow.

PLYMOUTH, Mass. - By the time the "sweet pudding of native corn" makes its appearance, delivered by period-costumed servers in brightly colored, flowing wool skirts and breeches, there could be little doubt as to how a ...

The current wave of swine flu may have peaked in most of the US, but the illness remains widespread and the threat of another wave remains, officials said Friday.

WASHINGTON - If you're considering Botox to erase frown lines or liposuction to get rid of love handles, you might want to move fast.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the most sweeping anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years, prohibits employers from hiring or firing based on a person's genetic makeup.

And as the swine flu gets coughed and sniffled from person to person, it's revealing dings in a massive health plan in Michigan that was designed to protect the public.

EL PASO, Texas -- It's one of the most important holiday traditions, visiting Santa at the mall, and telling him what you want for Christmas.

HANOI, Vietnam - Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention. Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year ...