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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Starting Wednesday, you can purchase and receive a H1N1 influenza vaccine at local Walmart stores. Walmart and Mollen Immunization Clinics said Mollen health-care professionals will administer ...

Earlier today, we noted how a Congressional Budget Office report gave the Obama White House and Senate Democrats a shot in the arm in the health-care debate.

Staying socially connected may be just as important for public health as washing your hands and covering your cough. A new study suggests that feelings of loneliness can spread through social networks like the common cold ...

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.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Low-dose radiation from mammograms and chest X-rays may increase the risk of breast cancer in young women who are already at high risk because of family history or genetic susceptibility, Dutch researchers said ...

MONDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- People born in the "stroke belt" of the southern United States have a lifelong higher risk of dying of stroke than others, even if they live elsewhere later, a new study shows.

Dec. 1, 2009 -- People who exercise regularly tend to stay healthier as they age, and now new research may explain why at a cellular level.

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.

Saudi Arabia has ordered an inquiry into flash floods last week that killed more than 100 people, according to the state news agency.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Nov. 30, 2009 -- The prevalence of infants born with Down syndrome has increased dramatically in recent years, new research indicates.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A software program that helps determine the stiffness of a breast lump may help some women avoid unnecessary breast biopsies, US researchers said on Monday.

CHICAGO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the long-term risk of cancer, ...

Just when it appears that the country has maxed out on ways to promote breast cancer awareness and the ubiquitous pink-ribbon campaign, the staff of Providence Saint Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Ore.

NEW YORK - CVS Caremark Corp., the operator of more than 7000 US drugstores, was accused by Connecticut of selling expired products, less than a month after the company settled a similar suit with New York.

Nashville's existing convention center could become a 15-story medical trade center buzzing with health-care innovations and brimming with visitors - and steering some business to a new convention ...