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One in five HIV sufferers in Africa was infected by medical staff using dirty needles and clinical equipment, new research has found.

DUBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The annual Muslim haj pilgrimage has ended without the major flu outbreak feared by some experts and with only five deaths from the H1N1 flu virus out of 73 recorded cases, the Saudi health minister said.

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.

All those holiday hugs and kisses during Thanksgiving have health officials worried about an uptick in swine flu cases in our region after a couple of weeks of reported declines.

GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Countries should phase out the use of Stavudine, the most widespread antiretroviral, because of "long-term, irreversible" side-effects in HIV patients including wasting and a nerve disorder, ...

An intervention program called "Early Start Denver Model" emphasizes play therapy for very young children with autism. (CNN) -- Researchers have shown for the first time that if a child is diagnosed with autism as early as 18 ...

Nov. 27, 2009 -- If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and spending on the disease will nearly triple, a new study shows.

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

Portland officials are no longer asking residents on the west side of the city to boil their water. As Rob Manning reports, test results Sunday were negative for e coli bacteria.

In this year of the H1N1 flu, Santa's gloves are coming off. The big guys in the red suits are telling each other to go barehanded at public events -- and to keep washing those hands as often as they can.

Agriflu will be administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in prefilled syringes, the FDA says. (CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.

While the need for blood tends to rise during the holiday season, donations tend to fall. That's a paradox the the American Red Cross has been hoping to overcome, as it has held a ...

AP CALEXICO, Calif.—Federal authorities say they seized more than 6000 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $6 million hidden within a shipment of door knobs in a truck at the US-Mexico Border.

WASHINGTON - - Just before Don Hall and his family left town for Thanksgiving, the laid-off manufacturing supervisor from Castalia, Ohio, wrote a $763.81 check to his health insurance company for his December payment ...

* The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center made a public announcement in October 2009 that it would close the 123-bed UPMC Braddock Hospital on January 31, 2010.

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.

SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- South Korean health authorities on Monday reported its first case of a patient infected with the A/H1N1 flu strain resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu.