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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US Senate opens debate on a broad healthcare overhaul on Monday with senators seeking an elusive compromise on thorny issues like a government-run insurance plan, abortion coverage and ...

Drug treatment for people with HIV should begin a year or two sooner than currently recommended, says a new guidance issued Monday by the World Health Organization.

ATLANTA - A new government report says swine flu infections seem to be dropping, but the number of children who died with the illness rose by about 30.

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.

Consumer Reports tested nearly 400 store-bought broilers last spring and published the disturbing results this morning. Two-thirds of the chickens tested positive for salmonella and/or campylobacter, the leading bacterial causes of food-borne illness.

A worker at a cannabis dispensary packages medicinal marijuana in this file photo. As states loosen their medical marijuana laws, institutions are looking to educate potential caregivers about how to enter the cannabis industry the ...

After flooding in Jeddah killed more than 100 people, Saudi Arabians have flocked to Facebook to press the government for better drainage.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Market Center Management Co. on Monday announced plans to build and operate a $250 million Nashville Medical Trade Center on the site of the city's existing convention center.

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.

"If the title alone doesn't get you, the images and stories will. Here are animals and humans, bonded together through the hardest of circumstances.

If you lose your job (God forbid), you can keep your health insurance for a while through a federal program called Cobra. There's a catch, though: Because your employer is no longer chipping in, your premiums may go way up.

Cosmetic surgeons performing breast implants, tummy tucks and dermal fillers have come across an unfamiliar foe. And it's not fat, wrinkles or shapeless figures.

Most patients with high blood pressure have a hard time keeping it under control, and a new study suggests they may get better results if a team of a physician and a pharmacist manage their care.

More and more adults and children are getting type 2 diabetes, a condition in which the cells of the body don't use insulin properly.

(NECN: Ally Donnelly, Wakefield, Mass.) - Many of the students and their parents at a Wakefield, Massachusetts middle school are taking antibiotics as a precaution today.

Philadelphia, Pa. - November 30, 2009 - Comcast-Spectacor, the Philadelphia-based sports and entertainment, is encouraging fans of both the Philadelphia Flyers and 76ers to donate blood to the American Red Cross during the company's fourth annual Blood ...

A day after Portland leaders lifted the city's first-ever boil water order, the water bureau plans to change its response for future incidents.

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