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(11-30) 04:00 PST Washington - -- As the Senate takes up health care legislation this week, the question of whether it will "bend the curve" of soaring costs has emerged as a central dispute among experts and the subject of an all-out push by the White ...

With an increased supply of vaccinations available, school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics can now begin to take place in Oshkosh. Public and private schools in Oshkosh will partner with the ...

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 rigorous, if small, study of behavior treatment found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms in autistic children as young as 18 months and often results in a milder diagnosis.

JET, Okla. (AP) - Everyone knows Santa Claus has many helpers during the holiday season. Earnest Page of Jet is one of those helpers.

Middle-aged men and women may be risking arthritis if they overdo their exercise regime, research suggests. A US study of more than 200 people aged 45 to 55 and of "normal" weight found those doing the most exercise were the most likely to suffer knee ...

The Nov. 23 editorial titled "Prevention: 1 oz." questions whether the newly published US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations will lead to a rationing of health care, implying, incorrectly, that health care is not already rationed.

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double over the next 25 years, rising from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

Portland officials are no longer asking residents on the west side of the city to boil their water. As Rob Manning reports, test results Sunday were negative for e coli bacteria.

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.

Supplies of all types of blood are needed at hospitals around the country all year long, but the need often is greater during the holiday season.

This year, lawmakers agreed to temporarily subsidize health insurance for laid-off workers, providing a big discount for coverage until they got back to work.

WAKEFIELD, Mass. -- Students and parents at Galvin Middle School in Wakefield were put on alert as word spread that a teacher at the school was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis.

* The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center made a public announcement in October 2009 that it would close the 123-bed UPMC Braddock Hospital on January 31, 2010.

Q: Once you have the H1N1 flu, are you immune to it? - Cindy, Sioux Falls, SD A: If you've already had H1N1, you have protection, but only if you're exposed to the same strain of the virus that laid you low.

Forging new path Rev. Linda Lee Snyder, the interim pastor of The First Baptist Church in Attleboro, addresses the worshipers earlier this month.