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JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma, taking a concrete step away from the South African government's previous delays in providing drugs to treat AIDS and prevent women from infecting their newborns, declared yesterday in a national ...

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare.

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (healthday News) -- A new study suggests that lonely people attract fellow "lonelies" and influence others to feel lonely, too.

Alida Holmes is frightened to be without health insurance for the first time as an adult. Holmes hasn't been uninsured "since I was 16," she said.

There's more cautionary news about mammograms: Young women at high risk for breast cancer actually may be increasing their chances of contracting the disease by getting annual mammograms, according to a new analysis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all patients in intensive care units around the world have infections, and more than 70 percent are being given antibiotics -- a trend that could help more drug-resistant superbugs ...

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 ...

Over the weekend the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced more detailed information on Diamond Pet Food's September recall of Premium Edge Finicky Adult Cat and Premium Edge Hairball.

Just in case you weren't panicking enough over the swine flu, it turns out that the virus that causes it, H1N1, can make dogs, cats and ferrets sick, too.

PROVIDENCE - In his first press conference since Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Catholic Diocese of Providence criticized him for disclosing a confidential request to stop receiving Holy Communion because of his stand on moral issues, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Biotherapeutic drug company Dyax Corp. said Tuesday it received Food and Drug Administration approval to market Kalbitor for treatment of the genetic disorder hereditary angioedema in patients 16 years and up.

The first phase focused on elementary school aged children; these clinics are for students in middle school and high school. The difference between this group of vaccinations and the first, the elementary school children need two doses of vaccine, ...

With hundreds of city firefighters out of work every day for medical problems ranging from broken bones to more serious illnesses, the Fire Department is moving to reduce staffing at 49 engine companies in the five boroughs, city officials ...

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News)—A special, intensive early intervention program for toddlers with autism succeeded in boosting IQ along with children's language and social skills, a new study shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two-thirds of 382 fresh broiler chickens purchased from grocers by a US consumer group were contaminated with one or both of the bacteria that cause most cases of food-borne illness, the group said on Monday.

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