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WASHINGTON - Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question: If Congress makes history and puts a bill on President Barack Obama's desk by Christmas, how long before the uninsured get ...

GAINESVILLE - World AIDS Day will be observed Tuesday to help raise awareness about the worldwide impact of HIV and AIDS. The local numbers for the disease remain high.

The US Preventive Services Task Force has put forth new guidelines for screening mammogram in women ages 40-49, annually mammograms in women 50 and older and self-exams.

The World Health Organization tried this week to dampen fears about mutations seen in the swine flu virus in several countries, noting that both mutations had been found in very few people.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - By 2034, nearly twice as many Americans will have diabetes and spending on the disease will triple, further straining the US health system and testing the viability of Medicare and other government health ...

Belgium's Rom Houben uses his touchscreen and assistance of his speech therapist Linda Wouters, left, to communicate during an interview in Zolder, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.

GENEVA, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Tamiflu resistance in some H1N1 patients with badly weakened immune systems does not seem to reflect a major change in the virus' susceptibility to the frontline drug, the World Health Organisation said ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved a new Novartis AG (NVS, NOVN.VX) flu vaccine, Agriflu, in an accelerated process Friday.

The workers who were laid-off between Sept. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009, were getting COBRA subsidy which pays 65 percent of their job-based health insurance premiums for nine months.

US health authorities have made pregnant women one of the highest priority groups for getting the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, but is it actually safe for pregnant women and their babies?

AP The protesters held signs and distributed fliers Friday outside the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's headquarters downtown.

Beginning Tuesday, the Carteret County Health Department will be offering the H1N1 vaccine to eligible persons on a weekly schedule.

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.

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

AP Breaking News Video BY ALEX DOTY In the spirit of the giving season, area residents and even Grand Haven city employees flocked to the Grand Haven Community Center Wednesday to donate their blood to the American Red Cross.

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.

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.