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RIYADH (Reuters) - More than two million Muslims gather this week for the annual haj pilgrimage to Islam's holy city of Mecca, where Saudi authorities hope to minimize spread of the H1N1 virus and prevent any political demonstration.

A few years ago, an independent group that issues guidelines on cancer screening decided to review its recommendations for breast cancer.

President Obama's vision for making health care in America more effective and efficient collided for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the nation's health-care system.

PORTLAND, Ore. - At the newly opened Cannabis Cafe, people sit around taking tokes from a "vaporizer" - a contraption with a big plastic bag that captures the potent vapors of heated marijuana.

Tucked into the last hundred pages of Sen. Harry Reid's proposed health care bill is a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery that has doctors from various specialties wondering if they will soon become tax collectors who must also interpret the tax code.

Some women's health experts are worried that new guidelines for cervical cancer screening will get lost in the loud debate over breast cancer testing.

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Tis the season to be jolly -- as well as pass your flu germs to others at Christmas get-togethers unless you're careful.

By Sang Tan, AP By Steve Sternberg, USA TODAY The momentum of the H1N1 flu outbreak has fallen off, but flu activity is still high and Tamiflu-resistant virus may have begun to spread.

Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy or who were exposed to lead have more than double the risk of having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as other children, new research shows.

Seven yet-to-be-named appointees would decide how to run the hospital and whom to hire. Outpatients wait in the lobby of the clinic that operates at the Martin Luther King Jr.

By Staff Reports The meal will be served from noon to 1:30 pm at Trinity's All Saints Parish Hall, 106 North Grove St. in downtown Marshall.

Firefighters brought the fire under control at 6:12 am, though a heavy presence of firefighters and police remained eight hours later, ash falling onto police cruisers in the otherwise beautiful afternoon.

A tie vote of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents Friday defeated -- for now -- a campaign to impose new limits on stem cell research at the system.

AP COLUMBUS, Ohio - Those who knew her personally or were simply touched by her story have an opportunity to pay respects to Stefanie Spielman, the wife of NFL and Ohio State star Chris Spielman.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the most sweeping anti-discrimination law in nearly 20 years, prohibits employers from hiring or firing based on a person's genetic makeup.

I will be the first to acknowledge that walking behind someone smoking on my way to class is extremely annoying. Moreover, when someone lights up next to me it does feel as though that person is doing something wrong, and that I have some kind of right ...

The necklaces spilling out of plastic bags looked like Mardi Gras beads, but a color-coded chart told a different, less festive story.