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The number of pilgrims to Mecca this year may be down substantially because of fears of swine flu, the BBC and CNN reported Wednesday, citing remarks by government officials.

University of Michigan Museum of Art : "Day With(out) Art" A reading by poet Donald Hall to commemorate World AIDS Day. University of Michigan Museum of Art, 525 S. State, Ann Arbor.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (KGO) -- A provision in the Senate health insurance bill has California lawmakers and the state's insurance industry worried.

People listen with their skin, not just their ears. Air puffs delivered to volunteers' hands or necks at critical times alter their ability, for better or worse, to hear certain speech sounds, a new study finds.

SINGAPORE: Singapore health authorities have approved the use of the H1N1 vaccine for youths aged 10 to 18. Previously, the vaccine was only approved for those above the age of 18.

The swine flu epidemic appears to be waning in Massachusetts, doctors and hospitals said yesterday, though state health officials are not yet ready to declare that the worst is over and specialists warned that the ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday.

Update | 8:45 pm Rom Houben, a Belgian man who spent 23 years lying motionless in bed, suffering from complete paralysis that was misdiagnosed as the result of a coma, was discovered to have been fully conscious three years ago by a ...

Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Canada is still investigating an unusually high rate of a side effect known as anaphylaxis from a batch of glaxosmithkline Plc's swine flu vaccine, health officials said today.

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.

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.

They say New York's a gentler, safer city nowadays, but it's not any less confusing - especially to a 13-year-old runaway.

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.

By Madison Park, CNN (CNN) -- Going vegetarian on Thanksgiving doesn't mean forcing tofu into faux poultry or shaping legumes into meat-like blobs.

During the month of November we Americans, owing to our Thanksgiving Day holiday, are encouraged to be thankful. Thankful for whatever we have which we believe brings happiness.

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.

LONDON -- Britain's Health Protection Agency is working with colleagues from the Public Health Service of Wales to investigate several possible cases of person-to-person transmission of oseltamivir-resistant H1N1 flu ...