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LONDON - Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a batch of 170000 doses of swine flu vaccine while authorities investigate reports of allergic reactions among recipients, drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Tuesday.

Despite a new law that bans six chemicals from children's products and lowers the amount of lead allowed, a public interest group has found a number of toys at major retailers that contain the outlawed chemicals and illegal amounts of ...

Last week, the US Preventive Services Task Force published new guidelines that recommended against routine mammography screening for women in their 40s and less-frequent screening for older women at average risk of developing breast cancer.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Walking away or letting things pass may be an unhealthy way to deal with unfair treatment on the job, research from Sweden shows.

What could be done to prevent another Vioxx? This pain medication for arthritis became a blockbuster after its introduction in 1999, only to be taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of heart ...

NEW YORK - The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.

Strains of antibiotic-resistant infections normally found in the community are increasingly showing up among hospital outpatients, raising the risk that inpatients could become infected, new research says.

Pfizer has been ordered to pay a total of $103 million in punitive damages to two women who were found to have breast cancer after they used hormonal drugs, state court officials in Philadelphia said Monday.

By Megan Brooks NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you need another reason to stop smoking while pregnant, or to rid your home of lead, a new study suggests that children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy and who are exposed to the metal have more than ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Medicaid pharmacy costs for the blood-thinning drug Plavix jumped at around the same time the drug's maker started advertising it to consumers -- even though the number of people prescribed the drug didn't ...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia - An estimated 2.5 million Muslims have converged on Mecca for the annual hajj pilgrimage, as workers toil round the clock to complete construction projects designed to avoid deadly stampedes.

Los Angeles City Council is poised to vote as early as Tuesday on provisions to a proposed medical marijuana ordinance it has faced difficulty with for the past two years.

ScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) - Many people who are overweight or obese develop insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes at some stage in their lives.

After years of needlessly conducting countless Pap tests and subsequent follow-up exams on low-risk women, North American health organizations are finally moving to replace antiquated cervical cancer screening policies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Novartis will officially open the first next-generation flu vaccine plant in the United States on Tuesday, but it will be years before it makes its first vaccine.

While the prospect of experiencing electroshock therapy to any part of the body hardly fills us with glee, buzzing the trusty 'little fella' with an electric current prompts a whole new level of squirming.

WASHINGTON - US Santas want swine flu vaccine so that sneezing children don't give them an unwelcome present this Christmas. Ernest Berger, head of "Santa America," told NPR radio that the organization's 200 volunteer Father Christmases want to be ...

As I explore in today's Well column, many families gathering around the country this week for Thanksgiving dinner are bracing for the intense emotions of the holiday meal.