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The US Preventive Services Task Force's revised guidelines have been praised and criticized. The American Cancer Society is one group that disagrees.

J Pat Carter/AP American homeowners complained that their newly built houses were giving off a rotten egg odor and causing respiratory problems, among other things.

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.

DENVER—There was an old hippy saying in the '60s: "If the government figured out a way to tax it, marijuana would become legal.

The smoking ban in the UK did not lead to children being exposed to more smoking at home, a study has concluded. One of the main criticisms of the ban in public places was that it could prompt people to swap pubs for drinking at home where they could ...

There is still room at the Thanksgiving table for those who do not have family to be with or who are unable to prepare a turkey dinner at home, as the Casino Theatre Entertainment Center continues to accept reservations for its free community ...

The health ministry in Kenya has launched a three-week campaign to encourage up to one million people to take an Aids test. Ministry officials will go door-to-door in a bid to more than double the number of people checked since voluntary testing ...

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.

No matter how much yogurt we eat or kambucha we drink, no matter how much we hear about how bacteria can be beneficial to us, it still can seem creepy that there are up to 1000 species of bacteria and fungi lounging around on our skin at any given ...

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

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.

AP Writer / November 23, 2009 CONCORD, NH—New Hampshire health officials announced Monday that the state is opening swine flu vaccination clinics for the highest-risk cases this week, as complications from the illness take two more ...

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.

Rockville, MD - The FDA is alerting patients and providers about an apparent jump in cardiovascular events among patients taking sibutramine (Meridia, Abbott Laboratories) for weight loss in a preliminary analysis from a randomized placebo-controlled ...

By Taken from AP LONDON (AP) - Rather than shake hands this holiday season, it's more hygienic to exhange kisses on the cheek advises Britain's authority on etiquette.