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GENEVA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

Last week, the US Preventive Services Task Force published new guidelines that recommended against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and less-frequent screening for older women at average risk of developing breast cancer.

MONDAY, Nov. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Problems with the popular arthritis drug Vioxx, including increased risk for heart attack, stroke and death, were known for years before the drug's voluntary withdrawal from the ...

Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of a new study suggest that women who smoke during their pregnancy are putting their unborn child at an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Pfizer has been ordered to pay a total of $103 million in punitive damages to two women who were found to have breast cancer after they used hormonal drugs, state court officials in Philadelphia said Monday.

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, researchers reported on Tuesday.

California first approved the use of medical marijuana in 1996, but it wasn't until 2004 that the state approved the creation of distribution centers.

Nov. 23, 2009 -- Bosses don't like whiners, but men who silently cope with perceived unfair treatment may have increased risk for future heart attack or death from heart disease, a new study shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Novartis will officially open the first next-generation flu vaccine plant in the United States on Tuesday, but it will be years before it makes its first vaccine.

By Ellie Velinska There are only two ways to pay for Obama's Health Care Reform: reduce benefits and (or) increase taxes. Reducing benefits is hard.

More than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes, according to the World Health Organization. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from the disease.

Now children must be in a booster seat while riding in the car until they're 8 years old or at least 4'9" tall. That adds a year to the existing law, which capped the booster seat age at 7. The change is because the shoulder strap on seatbelts tends to ...

Nov. 23, 2009 -- A new study of the weight loss drug Meridia is in the hands of FDA regulators, who've released an early communication based on preliminary data: certain patients taking the drug may have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, ...

The Colorado Board of Health on Monday postponed a critical hearing on medical marijuana scheduled for next month. The board had been slated to re-examine its definition of a medical-marijuana "caregiver" at a hearing Dec. 16.

Inside an unremarkable three-story office building near Santana Row, Richard Noonan waited last week in the San Jose Cannabis Buyers Collective lobby for the marijuana he uses to treat symptoms of palsy.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s best-selling blood thinner Plavix may have cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars because of ineffective advertising, research suggests.