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Drug treatment for people with HIV should begin a year or two sooner than currently recommended, says a new guidance issued Monday by the World Health Organization.

ATLANTA - Swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30, according to a government report released Monday.

Pay attention: The "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" - better known as the Senate health care overhaul bill - is chock full of interesting but little publicized provisions affecting ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two-thirds of 382 fresh broiler chickens purchased from grocers by a US consumer group were contaminated with one or both of the bacteria that cause most cases of food-borne illness, the group said on Monday.

DUBAI, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The annual Muslim haj pilgrimage has ended without the major flu outbreak feared by some experts and with only five deaths from the H1N1 flu virus out of 73 recorded cases, the Saudi health minister said.

Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms and other cancer screenings for more than a decade.

A worker at a cannabis dispensary packages medicinal marijuana in this file photo. As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, institutions are looking to educate potential caregivers about how to enter the cannabis industry the ...

Agriflu will be administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in prefilled syringes, the FDA says. (CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.

Local health care industry leaders rejoiced Monday at the announced plan to build a 2 million-square-foot medical trade center at the current site of the Nashville Convention Center.

"If the title alone doesn't get you, the images and stories will. Here are animals and humans, bonded together through the hardest of circumstances.

If you lose your job (God forbid), you can keep your health insurance for a while through a federal program called Cobra. There's a catch, though: Because your employer is no longer chipping in, your premiums may go way up.

Cosmetic surgeons performing breast implants, tummy tucks and dermal fillers have come across an unfamiliar foe. And it's not fat, wrinkles or shapeless figures.

Most patients with high blood pressure have a hard time keeping it under control, and a new study suggests they may get better results if a team of a physician and a pharmacist manage their care.

Leonard Fleck is a professor of medical ethics and philosophy at Michigan State University and author of the recently published "Just Caring, Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation," by Oxford Press.

(NECN: Ally Donnelly, Wakefield, Mass.) - Many of the students and their parents at a Wakefield, Massachusetts middle school are taking antibiotics as a precaution today.

More and more adults and children are getting type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the cells of the body don't use insulin properly.

Philadelphia, Pa. - November 30, 2009 - Comcast-Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment, is encouraging fans of both the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers to donate blood to the American Red Cross during the company's fourth annual Blood ...