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MORE people stepped forward this year to be tested for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an encouraging sign, though the Health Ministry still wants those in the high-risk groups to get tested regularly.

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An alarming new study on diabetes reports the number of Americans with the illness will double in the next 25 years.

The US Preventative Services Task Force issued a recommendation that women 40 and younger should simply talk to their doctors about the benefits and risks of having a mammogram.

The health care bill that the Senate is to begin debating next week is the result of numerous compromises that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Rom Houben, injured in a car crash in 1983 at age 20, was allehedly conscious during his 23-year coma. It's a hypochondriac's worst nightmare: You're powerless, paralyzed and unable to communicate for nearly a quarter of a century ...

Forging new path Rev. Linda Lee Snyder, the interim pastor of The First Baptist Church in Attleboro, addresses the worshipers earlier this month.

I thought it was only in Canada and other countries that people had to wait for months for an appointment with a specialist. My husband's sister has to wait two months to have a consultation for a herniated disc in her neck.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With the holidays here, the American Red Cross says the perfect gift is as close as the nearest blood drive. That's certainly true for Hutchinson businessman Dennis ...

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced the deaths of two people who were infected with the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus.

This is the time of year when the American Red Cross steps up its efforts to collect blood donations, and there are several more blood drives set up in Southwest Michigan over the next month.

Did Blue Cross Blue Shield go too far in its war of words against congressional health care reform? Rep. Pricey Harrison of Greensboro thinks so and now she's got company.

Having recently been reminded by the state to adhere to guidelines for vaccine prioritization, the Board of Health will hold an appointment-only swine flu clinic Dec. 5 for town children ages 3 to 18.

ATLANTA (November 27, 2009)—A group that's billed as the largest one-day sit-down dinner and meals-on-wheels operation in the country is feeling the impact of the struggling economy.

SILICON VALLEY -- Today has been declared a Winter Spare The Air day in the Bay Area. The Thanksgiving burning ban covers wood stoves, outdoor fire pits and indoor fireplaces.

A breast cancer sufferer spent £50000 in around a year, fearing she was going to die, before being told she was free of the disease.

Our brains can be fooled into perceiving one speech sound as a completely different one if the sound is accompanied by an inaudible puff of air, Canadian researchers have found.