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Mecca, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- The Hajj, an obligatory pilgrimage for Muslims, began this year on Wednesday with two twists: thinner crowds and heavy rain.

HIV rates seem to be declining, according to a new study, but the best improvements seem to be in developing countries. A mother and child wait to receive treatment at the HIV clinic in Nyagasambu, Rwanda, February 14, 2008.

Knowledge is power, unless that knowledge comes with so much baggage that it becomes crippling. Such is the trouble with many cancer and health screening tests.

ABC News Senior Health and Medical Editor Dr. Richard Besser said people in the US need not worry -- the vaccine implicated in these reactions is not licensed for use in the United States.

WASHINGTON -- Americans could pay billions of dollars more in new taxes for a few years before they're likely to see significant change in the nation's health care system under legislation that Congress is considering.

Boston (DbTechNo) - Results of a new US study find that MRSA bacteria is being found in more hospitals than years past. This is a very dangerous type of bacteria, which can result in fatalities if patients become infected.

The toy industry welcomes the added attention toy safety gets from the news media and consumers at this time of year. Reports from the federal government's US Consumer Product Safety Commission and consumer groups such as the Public Interest Research ...

A new Novartis AG vaccine plant in North Carolina is supposed to boost the US's ability to fight pandemics like the current swine-flu virus.

By REUTERS The Justice Department and Department of Health and Human Services launched a special strike force in Miami in 2007 to combat Medicare fraud in South Florida and similar units have been set up in Los Angeles, Houston and Detroit.

A new study suggests that evidence linking heart risks to Vioxx, the Merck arthritis drug pulled from the market in 2004, was apparent in 2000, Health Day reports.

One in five Type 2 diabetics in the United States is morbidly obese -- a percentage that has more than doubled since the 1970s, according to a new study.

Older people who report pain are also more likely to get injured in a fall, according to a new study. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the University of Massachusetts-Boston followed about 750 people older than 70 for 18 months.

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 (CNN) -- A 13-year-old teenager with Asperger's syndrome spent 11 days in October wandering New York's vast subway system until a police officer recognized him from a missing persons' poster, according to police and the youth's mother.

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.

Members also signal that they may cap dispensaries to between 70 and 200. The council plows through 50 proposed changes to its medical marijuana ordinance.