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The World Health Organization is changing its advice on HIV drugs, asking that they be given sooner and to breastfeeding mothers with the virus.

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- The two health reform bills moving through the US Congress differ in a number of ways but achieve the same goal: a dramatic reduction in the number of uninsured Americans.

Dr. Lauren Smith calls it the “Scarlet F.'' F as in flu. And as this season of swine flu trudges forward - with run-of-the-mill influenza hot on its heels - employers and workers alike are navigating the treacherous terrain of how you ...

Ray, 33, recently had a bilateral mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. She found a lump through a breast self-examination, went to her doctor for a clinical exam, then had a diagnostic mammogram that confirmed her fears.

MINA, Saudi Arabia - Five people died from swine flu during the hajj, Saudi Arabia said Sunday, a relatively small number considering the event is the largest annual gathering in the world and is seen as an ideal incubator for the virus.

A school in Detroit, Med Grow Cannabis College, offers courses in how to grow, use and profit from medicinal marijuana. 'Weak, disappointing.

What weighs over 54 tons, has over 46000 panels and is the largest ongoing community arts project in the world? If you said the "Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt" you would be correct.

With demand for their services from the public sagging, they focus on selves and peers; a business where practitioners are always expected to look their best.

Philadelphia, Pa. - November 30, 2009 - Comcast-Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment, is encouraging fans of both the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers to donate blood to the American Red Cross during the company's fourth annual Blood ...

Besides being Cyber Monday, today is also the first day of school after the Thanksgiving holiday. Students at Galvin Middle School in Wakefield, Massachusetts will be returning to a school where one of their teachers was diagnosed with bacterial ...

More and more adults and children are getting type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the cells of the body don't use insulin properly.

She looked like a grandmother. "Do you think that medical marijuana could help reduce my pain enough so I could exercise?" she asked.

The Portland Water Bureau ended its boil water order Sunday and gave westside Portland residents the green light to drink tap water.

Axel Laverne Dolton was born three weeks premature and still wieghed in at more than twice the average birthweight of babies born in Minnesota.

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.

Q: Once you have the H1N1 flu, are you immune to it? - Cindy, Sioux Falls, SD A: If you've already had H1N1, you have protection, but only if you're exposed to the same strain of the virus that laid you low.

When Paul Carroll lost his job in January, he and his wife, Kate, had a difficult, expensive choice: Do they keep their health insurance through his former employer, even though it would mean bearing the full cost of ...