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WASHINGTON - With the Senate set to begin debate Monday on President Barack Obama's signature domestic issue, the all-hands-on-deck Democratic coalition that allowed the health care reform legislation to advance is coming apart.

With an increased supply of vaccinations available, school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics can now begin to take place in Oshkosh. Public and private schools in Oshkosh will partner with the ...

DUBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The annual Muslim haj pilgrimage has ended without the major flu outbreak feared by some experts and with only five deaths from the H1N1 flu virus out of 73 recorded cases, the Saudi health minister said.

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double over the next 25 years, rising from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

Portland officials are no longer asking residents on the west side of the city to boil their water. As Rob Manning reports, test results Sunday were negative for e coli bacteria.

Henderson, NV - As kids sit on Santa's lap at Henderson's Galleria Mall, tears are okay but sniffles could send Santa away.

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.

This year, lawmakers agreed to temporarily subsidize health insurance for laid-off workers, providing a big discount for coverage until they got back to work.

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 ...

1. Event Committee: Tony Buba reported that the Rally on Nov. 19th was a great success with over 300 people there; all the TV stations and newspapers.

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.

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.

Part of a baby's protection against the H1N1 flu depends on its most natural interactions with its mother, but other measures are needed as well.

For many students, marijuana is a major part of their college life, a part that is not exactly condoned by the administration. But at Med Grow Cannabis College in Michigan, not only is marijuana condoned by the administration, it is the only subject ...