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New swine flu infections continue to drop across the United States, confirmation that the pandemic's fall wave has peaked, according to figures posted online Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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 ...

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.

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - One of the main rites at Islam's annual hajj centers on the bravery and determination of a woman. According to Muslim tradition, Hagar, the consort of the patriarch Abraham, ran between two hills searching for water for her dying ...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Connecticut officials are suing CVS/Pharmacy Inc., alleging it has sold food and over-the-counter medications past their expiration dates at many of its Connecticut stores.

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

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 ...

PROVIDENCE -- In his first news conference since his war of words with the Catholic bishop of Rhode Island, US Representative Patrick J. Kennedy declined to address the controversy today at a health care forum.

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.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Market Center Management Co. on Monday announced plans to build and operate a $250 million Nashville Medical Trade Center on the site of the city's existing convention center.

KID FITNESS--Morris Finestone, physical education chair at Patrick Henry Middle school in Granada Hills, watches students work out on "Dance, Dance Revolution" in the fitness center at the school.

If you want to spend five or six hours trapped in a debate, try picking a fight with a pro-marijuana advocate who argues that a prescription should give an athlete a free pass when it's his time to fill a cup.

Starting in the spring of 2007, federal, state and local law enforcement officials came together in South Florida to hunt down and charge people with defrauding the country's multibillion-dollar ...

A worker at a cannabis dispensary packages medicinal marijuana in this file photo. As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, institutions are looking to educate potential caregivers about how to enter the cannabis industry the ...

A middle school teacher in Wakefield has been diagnosed with bacterial meningitis. After being informed about the teachers' sickness, nurses and school administrators at the Galvin Middle School identified students and staff who may have had close ...