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There were about 17% fewer new infections worldwide in 2008, compared with 2001, but fewer than half of those infected began treatment, a World Health Organization and UNAIDS report says.

Listening is more than a matter of being “all ears.'' People can also hear with their skin, according to new research that deepens our understanding of the senses, showing they can work together but also override one another.

There's little debate about screening women ages 50 to 74. So why do so many slip through the cracks? By Katherine Hobson The recent brouhaha over breast cancer screening is about recommendations—what different experts say women of different ages ...

One of the White House's biggest boasts about the health care legislation now moving through Congress is that it should reduce health care costs for both government and society.

BRUSSELS - Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced the deaths of two people who were infected with the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus.

Researchers reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine Wednesday say, it is possible to slow down the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes with the help of Rituxan, a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (cancer) and rheumatoid arthritis ...

An existing drug used to treat the cancer type Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis was found to be a possible drug for patients newly diagnosed with type-1 diabetes.

I read with great alarm and dismay the front page article in the The Reporter (Nov. 23) regarding decisions to vaccinate or not to vaccinate with the H1N1 vaccine.

Deerfield-based Baxter International Inc. says it is looking into building a cell-based vaccine manufacturing plant in the US to produce seasonal and pandemic flu vaccines.