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MECCA, Saudi Arabia - The annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage to Mecca wound up on Sunday without the feared mass outbreak of swine flu, Saudi authorities said, reporting a total of five deaths and 73 proven cases.

Starting Monday, the city will begin vaccinating its students against H1N1 flu in schools - an immunization effort officials are calling the most ambitious since the 1950s Salk polio ...

Members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) are being invited this weekend and next to remember and demonstrate support for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS through a worship ...

Washington (smartabouthealth) - There is currently a great deal of confusion in regards to when women should start getting mammograms to test for breast cancer.

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double over the next 25 years, rising from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034, according to a study by the University of Chicago.

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

In Portland, Oregon this week, local officials announced that the bacteria e.coli had been found in the reservoir that supplies drinking water to the city.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved yet another seasonal flu vaccine on Friday. Agriflu, manufactured by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics in Siena, Italy, was approved for people ages 18 years and older to prevent the seasonal flu ...

When Paul Carroll lost his job in January, he and his wife, Kate, had a difficult, expensive choice: Do they keep their health insurance through his former employer, even though it would mean bearing the full cost of ...

(CNN) -- It's everywhere you look -- in schools, in shopping malls, in day care centers, in offices. Hand sanitizer has become ubiquitous after the outbreak of the novel H1N1 flu virus.

During the Thanksgiving season, family and friends gather to give thanks for their good fortune over the past year. The American Red Cross of Summit and Portage Counties would like to take this opportunity to thank its family and friends as well.

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.

(11.25.09) Ian Coleman (rolling fa mostly inished biketo his work station for some final touches) has volunteered with the Salvation Army's Christmas Bureau building bicycles for about nine years.

The editorial, "Start planning now to launch controversial smoking rules" (Nov. 12), properly advises proprietors of restaurants and bars to become familiar with how a new law that eliminates smoking in these venues starting on Jan ...

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria), 2 Political Junkies They'll be a protest today at UPMC headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh to demand that Braddock Hospital stay open.