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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.

By Nekessa Opoti, TC Daily Planet The Black Women's Health Imperative, a health advocacy group, has called the new recommendations for delaying the start of mammograms until age 50 a death sentence to black women.

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 ...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - At most colleges, marijuana is very much an extracurricular matter. But at Med Grow Cannabis College, marijuana is the curriculum: the history, the horticulture and the legal how-to's of Michigan's new medical ...

Question, does it make sense to tear down a very good health system that serves some 300 million citizens of our great nation to provide health care for an estimated 15 million citizens that have limited health care?

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.

When the Senate returns today to start debate on its healthcare reform bill, one group of medical providers likely to be taking sharp interest in the proceedings are those providing cosmetic surgery and related medical procedures.

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, ...

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 ...

Supplies of all types of blood are needed at hospitals around the country all year long, but the need often is greater during the holiday season.

* 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.

St. Paul, Minn. - The Health Department believes the H1N1 virus could return later this winter and cause another wave of illness, but multiple H1N1 waves did not occur in the southern hemisphere's flu season this ...