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glaxosmithkline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine, amid reports of severe side-effects in some patients.

GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

Last week, the US Preventive Services Task Force published new guidelines that recommended against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and less-frequent screening for older women at average risk of developing breast cancer.

WASHINGTON - The risks of taking anti-inflammatory drug Vioxx could have been detected nearly four years before the drug was pulled from the market, according to analysis of nearly 30 clinical trials.

Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of a new study suggest that women who smoke during their pregnancy are putting their unborn child at an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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.

RIYADH (Reuters) - More than two million Muslims gather this week for the annual haj pilgrimage to Islam's holy city of Mecca, where Saudi authorities hope to minimize spread of the H1N1 virus and prevent any political demonstration.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, researchers reported on Tuesday.

California first approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, but it wasn't until 2004 that the state approved the creation of distribution centers.

MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Men who bottle up their anger over unfair treatment at work could be hurting their hearts, a new Swedish study indicates.

Now children must be in a booster seat while riding in the car until they're 8 years old or at least 4'9" tall. That adds a year to the existing law, which capped the booster seat age at 7. The change is because the shoulder strap on seatbelts tends to ...

WASHINGTON -- With Congress home for Thanksgiving, the Obama administration on Monday provided House and Senate members with something it hopes will make changes in health care more palatable for their constituencies: estimates on how ...

AP - November 24, 2009 6:25 AM ET BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis has opened a plant in North Carolina to make flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods.

More than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes, according to the World Health Organization. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from the disease.

Nov. 23, 2009 -- A new study of the weight loss drug Meridia is in the hands of FDA regulators, who've released an early communication based on preliminary data: certain patients taking the drug may have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, ...

The Colorado Board of Health on Monday postponed a critical hearing on medical marijuana scheduled for next month. The board had been slated to re-examine its definition of a medical-marijuana "caregiver" at a hearing Dec. 16.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the most sweeping anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years, prohibits employers from hiring or firing based on a person's genetic makeup.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s best-selling blood thinner Plavix may have cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars because of ineffective advertising, research suggests.