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LONDON - The pharmaceutical company glaxosmithkline says it has advised medical staff in Canada to not use one batch of swine flu vaccine for fear it may trigger life-threatening allergies.

GENEVA - The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

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.

Nov. 23, 2009 -- Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke and childhood exposure to lead are linked to increased risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD) in children, a new study shows.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cases of a drug-resistant bacterial infection known as MRSA have risen by 90 percent since 1999, and they are increasingly being acquired outside hospitals, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Boston (DbTechNo) - It appears that heart risks associated with Vioxx were known about up to 3 years before Merck pulled their drug from the market.

A jury awarded $28 million in punitive damages in Pennsylvania state court Monday to a plaintiff who claimed her use of Pfizer Inc.'s hormone-therapy drugs caused breast cancer.

RIYADH (Reuters) - More than two million Muslims gather this week for the annual haj pilgrimage to Islam's holy city of Mecca, where Saudi authorities hope to minimize spread of the H1N1 virus and prevent any political demonstration.

GENEVA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) is looking into reports in Britain of the likely spread of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu, the UN agency said on Tuesday.

AP LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council will consider provisions to a proposed medical marijuana ordinance they have struggled with for two years.

Nov. 23, 2009 -- Bosses don't like whiners, but men who silently cope with perceived unfair treatment may have increased risk for future heart attack or death from heart disease, a new study shows.

By Ellie Velinska There are only two ways to pay for Obama's Health Care Reform: reduce benefits and (or) increase taxes. Reducing benefits is hard.

AP - November 24, 2009 6:25 AM ET BASEL, Switzerland (AP) - Swiss pharmaceuticals maker Novartis has opened a plant in North Carolina to make flu vaccines using cell cultures instead of egg-based methods.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.'s best-selling blood thinner Plavix may have cost US taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars because of ineffective advertising, research suggests.

More than 180 million people worldwide have diabetes, according to the World Health Organization. In 2005, an estimated 1.1 million people died from the disease.

Nov. 23, 2009 -- A new study of the weight loss drug Meridia is in the hands of FDA regulators, who've released an early communication based on preliminary data: certain patients taking the drug may have a higher risk of heart attacks, strokes, ...

Now children must be in a booster seat while riding in the car until they're 8 years old or at least 4'9" tall. That adds a year to the existing law, which capped the booster seat age at 7. The change is because the shoulder strap on seatbelts tends to ...

The Colorado Board of Health on Monday postponed a critical hearing on medical marijuana scheduled for next month. The board had been slated to re-examine its definition of a medical-marijuana "caregiver" at a hearing Dec. 16.

Inside an unremarkable three-story office building near Santana Row, Richard Noonan waited last week in the San Jose Cannabis Buyers Collective lobby for the marijuana he uses to treat symptoms of palsy.