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The number of new HIV infections may be declining, but the battle is far from over. "The articles in our issue demonstrate that the US and other leading donor nations can take crucial steps now to shape the extent of the pandemic and to dramatically ...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - The heaviest rain to hit Islam's annual hajj pilgrimage in years soaked the faithful and flooded the road to Mecca, snarling traffic as millions of Muslims headed for the holy sites.

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Raising the US government's $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democrats' ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

There's little debate about screening women ages 50 to 74. So why do so many slip through the cracks? By Katherine Hobson The recent brouhaha over breast cancer screening is about recommendations—what different experts say women of different ages ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and a pharmaceutical company are advising doctors in Canada not to use a batch of H1N1 swine flu vaccines following reports that the shots were causing an unusually high number of severe allergic reactions.

Members also signal that they may cap dispensaries to between 70 and 200. The council plows through 50 proposed changes to its medical marijuana ordinance.

Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study.

Nov. 24, 2009 -- A potentially dangerous and rapidly spreading strain of the "superbug" MRSA poses a much greater public health threat than previously thought, new research shows.

It's the first in the US for pharmaceutical company Novartis and the first in the nation to make flu vaccine from cells instead of eggs.

They say New York's a gentler, safer city nowadays, but it's not any less confusing - especially to a 13-year-old runaway.

By CYNTHIA mccormick All of these products made a nonprofit organization's annual holiday list of hazardous toys and were on display during a press conference at the Cape Cod Children's Museum yesterday.

Older adults who had chronic musculoskeletal pain in two or more places, higher levels of severe pain and/or pain that interfered with their daily activities were more likely to fall than adults who didn't have those types of pain, ...

Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has inherited a lot in its acquisitions of Warner-Lambert, Pharmacia, and Wyeth: lots of drugs, a few plants that needed to be closed, and researchers who need to be let go.

Although Merck (MRK) is aiming to close the Vioxx chapter, it is far from over. The company's long list of cases is still pending.

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Environmental factors may increase a child's risk for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). New research suggests exposure to both tobacco and lead may increase his or her risk by eight-fold.

You remember earlier this month when Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC (BCBSNC) sent out a ton of postage-paid cards urging people to send them to Sen. Kay Hagan and urge her to oppose health care reform?