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With vaccine supplies becoming more plentiful, the Minnesota Department of Health began posting flu-shot clinics online at its website.

The Congressional Budget Office late Monday said it estimates that the federal stimulus package sustained between 600000 and 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter, and raised gross domestic product by 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points ...

JERUSALEM, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- The latest figures of Israel's Center for Disease Control showed that only 1.3 percent of residents, or 96772 people, have received the A/H1N1 vaccination, local daily The Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday.

It can spread among groups of people and women are more likely than men to become "infected", according to researchers at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard.

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A special, intensive early intervention program for toddlers with autism succeeded in boosting IQ along with children's language and social skills, a new study shows.

PROVIDENCE - In his first press conference since Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Catholic Diocese of Providence criticized him for disclosing a confidential request to stop receiving Holy Communion because of his stand on moral issues, ...

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

NEW YORK - CVS Caremark Corp., the operator of more than 7000 US drugstores, was accused by Connecticut of selling expired products, less than a month after the company settled a similar suit with New York.

For young women who have a high risk of breast cancer because of genetic mutations or family history, the radiation from yearly mammograms may make the risk even higher, researchers reported at a radiology conference on Monday.

More California students cast aside their couch potato ways in 2009 and scored better in annual physical fitness tests than in recent years.

Saudi Arabia has ordered an inquiry into flash floods last week that killed more than 100 people, according to the state news agency.

CHICAGO (Reuters Health) - Every year, many patients undergo unnecessary computed tomography (CT) scans that are not indicated, exposing them to more radiation than is necessary, according to new research presented here at the annual ...

Nashville's existing convention center could become a 15-story medical trade center buzzing with health-care innovations and brimming with visitors - and steering some business to a new convention ...

Seniors have until the end of the year to switch Medicare drug plans to get a better deal. But many will pass up the chance to save hundreds of dollars a year in prescription costs.

It came in the form of a text message from one of my adult nieces. It wasn't the usual "Happy Whatever" that we have come to expect on these special occasions, but rather a one-line lament: "I don't have a cute little ...

BOSTON - Six Massachusetts hospitals are suing the state, saying they were shortchanged by the 2006 health care law. The hospitals claim the state violated a law requiring health care providers be adequately reimbursed for caring for Medicaid and ...

Medical marijuana advocates released a poll Monday they said shows overwhelming support - by a 2-to-1 margin - for licensing and regulating cannabis dispensaries popping up across Colorado.

In a recent e-mail from Sen. Maria Cantwell, she includes a statement saying Medicare wastes 30 percent of all Medicare spending. I just don't understand how anyone can assume the federal government will manage the 2000-page health care program any ...