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Last week was the fourth in a row that the number of cases has dropped, health officials said Tuesday. Since last Wednesday six H1N1-related deaths were confirmed and one death likely was H1N1-related.

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 ...

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.

A jury awarded $28 million in punitive damages in Pennsylvania state court Monday to a plaintiff who claimed her use of Pfizer Inc.'s hormone-therapy drugs caused breast cancer.

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, ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes.

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 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in the New York subway system after going missing following a school telling off, his mother has claimed.

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 ...

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 ...

-- 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.

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 ...