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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 ...

GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation, which has been stressing the safety and importance of H1N1 shots, on Monday had its own staff vaccinated against the pandemic virus.

CHICAGO - The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms, often resulting in a milder diagnosis.

JEDDAH: Search, rescue and recovery operations in Jeddah's flood-ravaged areas continued on Sunday with officials reducing the death toll reported on Saturday from 106 to 105.

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.

Besides being Cyber Monday, today is also the first day of school after the Thanksgiving holiday. Students at Galvin Middle School in Wakefield, Massachusetts will be returning to a school where one of their teachers was diagnosed with bacterial ...

A school in Detroit, Med Grow Cannabis College, offers courses in how to grow, use and profit from medicinal marijuana. 'Weak, disappointing.

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.

She looked like a grandmother. "Do you think that medical marijuana could help reduce my pain enough so I could exercise?" she asked.

The Portland Water Bureau ended its boil water order Sunday and gave westside Portland residents the green light to drink tap water.

Cases of diabetes will soar and the cost of treating the disease will triple, according to a new report. (CNN) -- The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years, ...

When the Senate returns today to start debate on its healthcare reform bill, one group of medical providers likely to be taking sharp interest in the proceedings are those providing cosmetic surgery and related medical procedures.

AP CALEXICO, Calif.—Federal authorities say they seized more than 6000 pounds of marijuana worth nearly $6 million hidden within a shipment of door knobs in a truck at the US-Mexico Border.

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.

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.

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.

* 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.

St. Paul, Minn. - The Health Department believes the H1N1 virus could return later this winter and cause another wave of illness, but multiple H1N1 waves did not occur in the southern hemisphere's flu season this ...

Proposed federal health care reform legislation does nothing to help save money or have better health care. It is designed to let the government intrude into the most personal aspects of a person's life.