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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.

GENEVA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Countries should phase out the use of Stavudine, the most widespread antiretroviral, because of "long-term, irreversible" side-effects in HIV patients including wasting and a nerve disorder, ...

The Student Health Center is hoping to squeeze in at least one more H1N1 clinic before the semester ends if shipments continue to arrive as they have.

On the eve of World AIDS Day on Tuesday, the medicine is getting better, but human behavior is not. AIDS deaths in Florida have declined for two consecutive years, thanks to drug therapies, but infections hold steady, ...

The World Health Organization tried this week to dampen fears about mutations seen in the swine flu virus in several countries, noting that both mutations had been found in very few people.

There are many health insurance plans available to families who have low income and cannot afford a fancy health insurance. Medicare and Medicaid are special schemes that are controlled by the states, and supported by together by states and the federal ...

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, ...

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY Residents and businesses west of the Willamette River may now drink tap water without boiling it first.

The Centers for Disease Control, in lieu of the upcoming holiday season and the huge amounts of travel associated with it, has launched a campaign to assure that travelers are well educated about H1N1, more casually known as Swine Flu.

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.

While the need for blood tends to rise during the holiday season, donations tend to fall. That's a paradox the the American Red Cross has been hoping to overcome, as it has held a ...

When Paul Carroll lost his job in January, he and his wife, Kate, had a difficult, expensive choice: Do they keep their health insurance through his former employer, even though it would mean bearing the full cost of ...

Flu gives Mr. Claus a reason to pause as efforts are made to keep the chief elf, and his young visitors, in good health. By JEANNETTE SCOTT, Staff Writer Santa has a Christmas wish of his own this year: He hopes children and their parents will observe ...

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.

* 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.