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The Senate is set to begin debate Monday on its version of a sweeping legislation to remake the US health care system, a showdown likely to last for weeks.

Nov. 27, 2009 -- If nothing is done, the number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years and spending on the disease will nearly triple, a new study shows.

More than 1 million people in the US are living with HIV. Nearly 1000 Gaston County residents have been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS since we started actively tracking the disease.

"Two decades of decline in breast cancer mortality could be reversed and countless American women may die needlessly from breast cancer each year" if US Preventive Services Task Force mammography recommendations are adopted as policy, according to the ...

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.

Rom Houben, injured in a car crash in 1983 at age 20, was allehedly conscious during his 23-year coma. It's a hypochondriac's worst nightmare: You're powerless, paralyzed and unable to communicate for nearly a quarter of a century ...

This is the time of year when the American Red Cross steps up its efforts to collect blood donations, and there are several more blood drives set up in Southwest Michigan over the next month.

One was a middle-aged man who refused to get into the shower. The other was a teenager who was afraid to get out. Karen Quintal, with a Leksell frame screwed into her skull before surgery for a tumor.

As they battle the holiday crowds this weekend, frazzled travelers at Chicago airports also will have the option of stopping to get protection against the swine flu virus.

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

Thanks to the “brilliant” idea by area musician, Curt Boettcher, a group of Wasecans is holding its first ever holiday concert to benefit the Waseca County chapter of the American Red Cross.

ATLANTA (November 27, 2009)—A group that's billed as the largest one-day sit-down dinner and meals-on-wheels operation in the country is feeling the impact of the struggling economy.

Oakland, IA-- Pottawattamie County and Council Bluffs Public Health Officials will be conducting an H1N1 Clinic on Monday, November 30th from 4pm-8pm.

A Spare the Air alert has been issued by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District for the full 24 hours of the holiday. The ban covers Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa and southern Sonoma and southwestern ...

Searches for the bird, not the country, experience a massive jump around Thanksgiving and a smaller one around Christmas. By Mark Milian Sorry, Istanbul, we're looking for the bird.

RALEIGH, NC - State lawmakers and attorneys are scrutinizing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina for its attempt to influence the national health care debate through direct mail and possibly illegal automated phone calls.

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.