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JOHANNESBURG - President Jacob Zuma, taking a concrete step away from the South African government's previous delays in providing drugs to treat AIDS and prevent women from infecting their newborns, declared yesterday in a national ...

WASHINGTON - A Republican senator asserted Tuesday during a rancorous floor debate that President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will shorten the lives of America's seniors by cutting Medicare.

Now that a government subsidy has ended, many laid-off workers won't be able to afford to keep their job-based health insurance.

TUESDAY, Dec. 1 (healthday News) -- A new study suggests that lonely people attract fellow "lonelies" and influence others to feel lonely, too.

There's more cautionary news about mammograms: Young women at high risk for breast cancer actually may be increasing their chances of contracting the disease by getting annual mammograms, according to a new analysis.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all patients in intensive care units around the world have infections, and more than 70 percent are being given antibiotics -- a trend that could help more drug-resistant superbugs ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stung by the continuing struggle to make a vaccine against the swine flu pandemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Tuesday her department would review its ...

On a day when the government announced it had made available less than half the hoped-for number of H1N1 vaccine doses, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said her department would undertake a thorough review of ...

WASHINGTON - A Missouri company said Tuesday its recalled dried cat food has sickened 21 cats and the pet food was distributed in multiple states in the South and along the East Coast.

Just in case you weren't panicking enough over the swine flu, it turns out that the virus that causes it, H1N1, can make dogs, cats and ferrets sick, too.

Health-care forum panelists, from left, Rep. Patrick Kennedy, Erin Kelly, a medical school student, and Vincent Mor, Department of Community Health chairman, listen to an opening speaker at Brown University on ...

(RTTNews) - Biopharmaceutical company Dyax Corp. (DYAX: News ) said Tuesday that the US Food and Drug Administration granted approval for Kalbitor, or ecallantide, for the treatment of acute attacks of hereditary angioedema, or HAE, in patients 16 ...

The first phase focused on elementary school aged children; these clinics are for students in middle school and high school. The difference between this group of vaccinations and the first, the elementary school children need two doses of vaccine, ...

With hundreds of city firefighters out of work every day for medical problems ranging from broken bones to more serious illnesses, the Fire Department is moving to reduce staffing at 49 engine companies in the five boroughs, city officials ...

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News)—A special, intensive early intervention program for toddlers with autism succeeded in boosting IQ along with children's language and social skills, a new study shows.

The bad news from a new study is that two thirds of store-bought chicken was found to be contaminated with potentially harmful bacteria.