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NEW BRITAIN - The New Britain Mayor's Advisory Committee on AIDS (MAC) and the Human Resources Agency of New Britain, Inc., Health & Wellness Division is planning an event for Word AIDS Day, Tuesday Dec. 1, 2009, at Trinity-On-Main Performance Theatre.

Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha.

Based on the latest polls, the American public is all over the place on health care reform - and no wonder. Congress has yet to adequately answer the most fundamental questions about what it's doing.

The current debate over the proper age at which to begin screening women for breast cancer seems to be one of the few things that unite the left and the right.

People listen with their skin, not just their ears. Air puffs delivered to volunteers' hands or necks at critical times alter their ability, for better or worse, to hear certain speech sounds, a new study finds.

In a lengthy meeting punctuated by a vocal audience and a power outage, the Los Angeles City Council yesterday agreed with the City Attorney's Office on a new draft medical marijuana ordinance that could crack down on LA residents' ability to obtain ...

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada is still investigating an unusually high rate of a side effect known as anaphylaxis from a batch of GlaxoSmithKline Plc's swine flu vaccine, health officials said today.

It's been found that one in five type 2 diabetics are morbidly obese, or at least 100 pounds overweight. Researchers from a study conducted by Loyola University have found that in ...

They say New York's a gentler, safer city nowadays, but it's not any less confusing - especially to a 13-year-old runaway.

"Staph is something that first of all we have on our skin. The MRSA staph is the Methacillin Resistant Staph. This staph is a lot harder to treat with antibiotics," said Barbara Rains, director of infection control.

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. says it is looking into building a cell-based vaccine manufacturing plant in the US to produce seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines.

Swine flu has contributed to the deaths of four more people in Wisconsin, though the outbreak of the novel H1N1 virus appears to be declining slightly after its peak in late October, according to the state ...

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has inherited a lot in its acquisitions of Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia, and Wyeth: lots of drugs, a few plants that needed to be closed, and researchers who need to be let go.

Although Merck (MRK) is aiming to close the Vioxx chapter, it is far from over. The company's long list of cases is still pending.

An effort that delivered more than 300 gifts to local needy seniors in 2008 is under way again this holiday season, according to a news release.

Travelers on their way to their Thanksgiving destinations are encountering minimal delays Wednesday evening on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

I've been speaking and writing about gratitude for almost ten years now - and I'm still amazed at how challenging it can be for me to focus on what I'm grateful for at times (especially when I'm feeling sorry for myself or complaining).