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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A US debt that is topping $12 trillion is raising fresh questions about the cost of President Barack Obama's proposed healthcare overhaul, but those concerns are unlikely to sink the legislation.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- As H1N1 cases are rising, so are bacterial pneumonia cases, health officials are finding. They're seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia.

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.

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 ...

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.

Jim occishannon Connelly takes it all in stride at the Cranford Township H1N1 vaccination clinic held at Orange Avenue School on Saturday, 21, November, 2009.

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

The Los Angeles mayor declines to say what the cap should be, but says it should be a level that can be adequately monitored by city officials and the Police Department.

That sounds like something my mother would say if we kids so much as frowned upon opening the clothes we needed instead of the toys we wanted on Christmas morning.

The American Red Cross is thanking blood and platelet donors by offering them a complimentary pie at the Dubuque Blood Donation Center during the 23rd annual Holiday Blood Drive from 7 am to 1 pm Friday, Nov. 27.

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.

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 25 (HealthDay News) -- A drug commonly used to treat non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and rheumatoid arthritis now also shows some promise in helping patients newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes.

BEIJING, Nov. 26 (Xinhuanet) -- A Belgian man, who was thought to have been in a vegetative state but then found conscious for the past 23 years, said he got a "second birth" after doctors worked out a way for him to communicate.

Nov. 24, 2009 -- A potentially dangerous and rapidly spreading strain of the "superbug" MRSA poses a much greater public health threat than previously thought, new research shows.

A Pennsylvania state court ruled in favor yesterday of an Illinois woman who claimed that hormone therapy drugs she had taken gave her breast cancer.

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.