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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- The ongoing H1N1 swine flu pandemic may be driving a recent spike in dangerous pneumonias among younger patients, a US health official said Wednesday.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- As H1N1 cases are rising, so are bacterial pneumonia cases, health officials are finding. They're seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia.

There were about 17% fewer new infections worldwide in 2008, compared with 2001, but fewer than half of those infected began treatment, a World Health Organization and UNAIDS report says.

There's little debate about screening women ages 50 to 74. So why do so many slip through the cracks? By Katherine Hobson The recent brouhaha over breast cancer screening is about recommendations—what different experts say women of different ages ...

WASHINGTON - Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.

Congressman Vic Snyder told a few hundred senior citizens Monday that the projected cutbacks in the Medicare program described in the health care bill under debate in the Senate have been ...

By Satish Cheney, Channel newsasia | Posted: 26 November 2009 1538 hrs SINGAPORE: Singapore health authorities have approved the use of the H1N1 vaccine for youths aged 10 to 18.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A drug commonly used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis now also shows some promise in helping patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

That sounds like something my mother would say if we kids so much as frowned upon opening the clothes we needed instead of the toys we wanted on Christmas morning.

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada is still investigating an unusually high rate of a side effect known as anaphylaxis from a batch of glaxosmithkline Plc's swine flu vaccine, health officials said today.

BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- A Belgian man, who was thought to have been in a vegetative state but then found conscious for the past 23 years, said he got a "second birth" after doctors worked out a way for him to communicate.

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. says it is looking into building a cell-based vaccine manufacturing plant in the US to produce seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines.

Nov. 24, 2009 -- A potentially dangerous and rapidly spreading strain of the "superbug" MRSA poses a much greater public health threat than previously thought, new research shows.

An implant placed under the skin can instruct the immune system to attack and kill cancer cells, at least in mice, say researchers.

New York (CNN) -- A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.

A new report shows a popular turkey *alternative* might be something to add to your Thanksgiving day meal -- just for the health of it.

LONDON -- Britain's Health Protection Agency is working with colleagues from the Public Health Service of Wales to investigate several possible cases of person-to-person transmission of oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 flu ...

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.