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JOHANNESBURG - Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.

TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (healthday News) -- The world of cancer screening has been upended in the past two weeks. Not only did the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) just raise the age at which it recommends women get their first ...

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.

GlaxoSmithKline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine, amid reports of severe side-effects in some patients.

I am in trouble with the left -- again -- over the public option for health care. My offense? On MSNBC Monday, Andrea Mitchell asked, "how do they water down the public option to make it acceptable to some of the moderates but placate some of the more ...

What could be done to prevent another Vioxx? This pain medication for arthritis became a blockbuster after its introduction in 1999, only to be taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of heart ...

TUESDAY, Nov. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, ...

NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Authorities in New York said a 13-year-old spent 11 days riding subway trains while police and his parents searched the city for him.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.

A Muslim pilgrim wears a mask for protection against the swine flu in the holy city of Medina. London, England (CNN) -- Forget stampedes, fires and terrorist attacks.

By Megan Brooks NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you need another reason to stop smoking while pregnant, or to rid your home of lead, a new study suggests that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy and who are exposed to the metal have more than ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medicaid pharmacy costs for the blood-thinning drug Plavix jumped at around the same time the drug's maker started advertising it to consumers -- even though the number of people prescribed the drug didn't ...

HOLLY SPRINGS, NC (Dow Jones)--Swiss drug maker Novartis AG (NVS, NOVN.VX) opened a vaccine-manufacturing plant Tuesday designed to make influenza vaccines without relying on decades-old technology that ...

-- Following the largest-ever recall of cribs, the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has acknowledged that the agency didn't move fast enough to get kids' products that posed danger off the market.

Los Angeles City Council is poised to vote as early as Tuesday on provisions to a proposed medical marijuana ordinance it has faced difficulty with for the past two years.

WASHINGTON - US Santas want swine flu vaccine so that sneezing children don't give them an unwelcome present this Christmas. Ernest Berger, head of "Santa America," told NPR radio that the organization's 200 volunteer Father Christmases want to be ...

ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) - Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives.

Long-term care providers are nervous. With H1N1 spreading across the country, it is less a matter of “if” and more “when” flu will appear in your facility.