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JOHANNESBURG - Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.

TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (healthday News) -- The world of cancer screening has been upended in the past two weeks. Not only did the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) just raise the age at which it recommends women get their first ...

GlaxoSmithKline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine, amid reports of severe side-effects in some patients.

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.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes.

What could be done to prevent another Vioxx? This pain medication for arthritis became a blockbuster after its introduction in 1999, only to be taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of heart ...

Movement on the health-care reform front might be having an impact on the new Health Care Consumer Confidence Index. The index reached its highest point in seven months of tracking how consumers feel ...

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, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Authorities in New York said a 13-year-old spent 11 days riding subway trains while police and his parents searched the city for him.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medicaid pharmacy costs for the blood-thinning drug Plavix jumped at around the same time the drug's maker started advertising it to consumers -- even though the number of people prescribed the drug didn't ...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Children may face a high risk of attention deficit hyper activity disorder, or ADHD, if they are exposed to tobacco smoke before being born or to lead during their childhood, a new study shows.

HOLLY SPRINGS, North Carolina (Reuters) - The bioreactors are empty and running just for show for now, but Novartis opened its first US flu vaccine plant on Tuesday, the first in the country to make flu vaccines out of cells instead of ...

LOS ANGELES -- The city council here could vote as early as Tuesday on a set of rules for hundreds of local medical-marijuana dispensaries, amid a growing debate about whether many of those pot shops should be allowed to operate ...

-- Following the largest-ever recall of cribs, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has acknowledged that the agency didn't move fast enough to get kids' products that posed danger off the market.

WASHINGTON - US Santas want swine flu vaccine so that sneezing children don't give them an unwelcome present this Christmas. Ernest Berger, head of "Santa America," told NPR radio that the organization's 200 volunteer Father Christmases want to be ...

Long-term care providers are nervous. With H1N1 spreading across the country, it is less a matter of “if” and more “when” flu will appear in your facility.

As I explore in today's Well column, many families gathering around the country this week for Thanksgiving dinner are bracing for the intense emotions of the holiday meal.