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Did you stop to think that the idea was not to induce panic, but to get the word out so that people take precautions such as covering their … read more mouth when they cough, and staying home when they are sick?

Dr. Sudhir Paul and a group of private funders are banking on a revolutionary approach to creating a vaccine for HIV. By Jessica A. Knoblauch Typically, AIDS research is funded by scientific groups like the National Institutes of Health and other ...

(Updates with comments from Dr. George Daley, who developed 11 of the stem cell lines) By Jared A. Favole Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins said the agency has approved 13 human ...

WASHINGTON - In a day of desultory debate on sweeping health care legislation, senators appealed to two potent political constituencies on Tuesday, with Democrats seeking additional medical benefits for women and ...

Jim Kvek packs the family belongings in his San Jose home Wednesday Oct. 8, 2009. Kvek, in the span of a year, lost his job when his company went bankrupt, filed for personal bankruptcy himself, then lost his home when the bank ...

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Merck & Co.'s Zegerid OTC (omeprazole/sodium bicarbonate) has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to treat frequent heartburn, the company said Wednesday in a news release.

GENEVA - The World Health Organisation on Wednesday recommended boosted antiviral treatment for hospital patients with severely weakened immune systems who contract swine flu, following recent clusters of Tamiflu resistance.

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.

Dec. 2, 2009 -- Recreational users of the drug ecstasy may be putting themselves at risk of sleep apnea, a new study suggests. The researchers, lead by study author Una McCann, MD, of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, ...

Staying socially connected may be just as important for public health as washing your hands and covering your cough. A new study suggests that feelings of loneliness can spread through social networks like the common cold ...

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 ...

Residents of the Southeast are so much more likely than other Americans to die of a stroke that epidemiologists call the region the “stroke belt.

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - US regulators have warned Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N) about "serious violations" of food safety regulations at a Texas plant where the company makes seafood soup, a letter released on Tuesday said.

Citing the balky swine flu vaccination campaign and other shortcomings in the nation's medical defenses, a top Obama administration official has announced a major review of the government's efforts to develop new protections against ...

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (HealthDay News) -- About 50 percent of intensive care unit patients worldwide suffer infections, which increase their risk of dying in the hospital, a new study finds.