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Scam artists have turned to the Web again, this time using the concern over H1N1 to lure users into making their computers vulnerable to a virus.

JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma, taking a concrete step away from the South African government's previous delays in providing drugs to treat AIDS and prevent women from infecting their newborns, declared yesterday in a national ...

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--US Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they were considering cutting off debate on Republican amendments to health-overhaul legislation and warned that the Senate could work on the bill ...

Dec. 2, 2009 (Chicago) -- Low-dose radiation from mammograms or chest X-rays may place some young high-risk women at increased risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug made by Cambridge, Mass.-based Dyax Corp. for the treatment of a rare genetic disorder that causes severe swelling.

BANGALORE (Reuters) - Shares of Santarus Inc (SNTS.O) jumped 36 percent on Wednesday, a day after the company said an over-the-counter (OTC) version of its heartburn drug, which is licensed to Schering-Plough Corp, ...

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- A new study suggests that lonely people attract fellow "lonelies" and influence others to feel lonely, too.

Nearly half of patients in intensive care units globally contract infections, and 70 percent are being treated with antibiotics, a development that may aid the rise of drug-resistant viruses, researchers announced Tuesday.

Inspectors found unsanitary conditions at a Tyson Foods plant in Forth Worth, Tex., that makes seafood soups, says a US Food and Drug Administration warning letter sent to the company and posted on the agency's Web site.

Dec 2 (Reuters) - CytRx Corp (CYTR.O) said US health regulators lifted a clinical hold on its experimental oral drug for the treatment of Lou Gehrig's disease after accepting the company's revised trial protocol, sending its shares up as much as 16 ...

A new grant program will help leading communities advance and track their use of health IT to improve quality of care and become role models to other communities.

CHICAGO (Reuters Health) - Add severe back pain and spine abnormalities to the list of problems overweight and obese adolescents can develop.

Just in case you weren't panicking enough over the swine flu, it turns out that the virus that causes it, H1N1, can make dogs, cats and ferrets sick, too.

The bad news from a new study is that two thirds of store-bought chicken was found to be contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria.