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(11-30) 04:00 PST Washington - -- As the Senate takes up health care legislation this week, the question of whether it will "bend the curve" of soaring costs has emerged as a central dispute among experts and the subject of an all-out push by the White ...

GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation, which has been stressing the safety and importance of H1N1 shots, on Monday had its own staff vaccinated against the pandemic virus.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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

Leonard Fleck is a professor of medical ethics and philosophy at Michigan State University and author of the recently published "Just Caring, Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation," by Oxford Press.

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.

Cases of diabetes will soar and the cost of treating the disease will triple, according to a new report. (CNN) -- The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years, ...

Last week, a 41-year-old woman who had recently had her first child walked into the office of Dr. Steven Teitelbaum in Santa Monica, Calif.

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.

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.

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 ...

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

* 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.

Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of a new study show that too much exercise once a person reaches middle age can increase their risk of developing arthritis.

Proposed federal health care reform legislation does nothing to help save money or have better health care. It is designed to let the government intrude into the most personal aspects of a person's life.