| STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Three European scientists shared the 2008 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for separate discoveries of viruses that cause AIDS and cervical cancer, breakthroughs that helped doctors fight the deadly diseases.
(The Associated Press) -- Recent winners of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, and their research, according to the Nobel Foundation.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The largest study of U.S. children ever performed -- aiming to track 100,000 from conception to age 21 -- will start recruiting mothers-to-be in North Carolina and New York in January.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal health officials have issued a public health warning against rabies after an Iraqi puppy with the disease arrived in the United States.
BEIJING (AP) -- Hong Kong said Sunday it found two Cadbury chocolate products contained considerably more of the industrial chemical melamine than the city's legal limit in a growing scandal over tainted food made in China.
CHICAGO (AP) -- More children have died from flu because they also had staph infections, according to a new government report that urges parents to have their kids get the flu shot.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Warning: young children should not keep hedgehogs as pets -- or hamsters, baby chicks, lizards and turtles, for that matter -- because of risks for disease.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government is urging consumers to thoroughly cook frozen chicken dinners after 32 people in 12 states were sickened with salmonella poisoning.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A Thai dairy company said Thursday it will return 122 tons of milk powder imported from China over contamination fears, as some Asian countries tried to respond carefully to the widening scandal involving a major trading partner.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eating a tiny bit of a melamine, the chemical responsible for a global food safety scare, is not harmful except when it's in baby formula, U.S. food safety officials said Friday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., has spent years fighting for legislation that would require insurance plans to treat mental health patients on par with those who have physical ailments. No more higher copays or deductibles for the mental health treatments. No more limits on visits to the doctor that differ from the caps for other patients.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Burger King Corp. said Thursday it is now cooking with trans fat free cooking oils at all of its restaurants nationwide.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- An industrial chemical blamed for sickening thousands of infants in China was found in candy in four Connecticut stores this week, a state official said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A top government health official rejected the idea of an immediate ban on cough and cold medicines for young children, saying it might cause unintended harm.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Could voting for president be hazardous to your health? An analysis of Election Day traffic deaths dating back to Jimmy Carter's 1976 win suggests yes, but the authors say that's no reason not to go to the polls.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -San Francisco's landmark universal health care program can continue to operate, after an appeals court ruled Tuesday that it does not violate federal law.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- If there ever is another anthrax attack, the mailman may deliver your antibiotics.
NEW YORK (AP) -- The AIDS virus has been circulating among people for about 100 years, decades longer than scientists had thought, a new study suggests.
LOS ANGELES (The New York Times News Service) -- If one child gets the flu this year, a classroom of children is at risk. Parents stay home from work. Emergency rooms become flooded.
(USA TODAY) -- A study of hormone use in nearly 700,000 Danish women over 50 suggests that when it comes to heart attack risk, patches or gels are safer than the combination pills most American women use.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an international medical aid group said Tuesday.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The government approved a new genetic test for the flu virus Tuesday that will allow labs across the country to identify flu strains within four hours instead of four days.
DALLAS (AP) -- Heart patients should be regularly screened for signs of depression, the American Heart Association recommended Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- No more wondering where your hamburger came from, or where your lettuce and tomatoes were grown: Starting this week, shoppers will see lots more foods labeled with the country of origin.
SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Snackers, beware: Your favorite chocolate or creamy treats might contain milk contaminated with melamine.
BEIJING (AP) -- Premier Wen Jiabao promised Saturday to improve Chinese food safety, seeking to tamp down public anxiety in the widening scandal over tainted milk that has sickened more than 50,000 children.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The West Nile virus season is on track to be the mildest in seven years, with less than a third the number of serious cases as last year's total, U.S. health officials said.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- The nation's fresh produce would be safer if U.S. farmers were required to adopt strict standards for growing leafy greens similar to industry-written ones devised for California growers, a Food and Drug Administration official said Friday.
(The Associated Press) -- The largest alternative medicine study the government has ever launched has stopped enrolling people while officials investigate whether participants were fully informed of the risks and are being adequately protected, The Associated Press has learned.
(USA TODAY) -- As a nation, we are struggling emotionally to digest each day's dour economic news. Record home foreclosure filings -- more than 2 million January through August. The stock market's Dow Jones industrial average down 18 percent this year. Retirement and college savings crumbling. Then there's that looming 700 billion dollar bailout for the financial industry.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials encouraged Medicare participants on Thursday to shop around for their prescription drug coverage next year because it could include significant price increases or changes regarding which drugs the plans will cover.
BEIJING (AP) -- The list of products caught in China's tainted milk scandal grew Friday to include baby cereal in Hong Kong and snack foods in Japan, while Taiwan reported three children and a mother with kidney stones in the island's first cases possibly linked to the crisis.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The state of California has a warning for its 36 million residents: Do not flush pharmaceuticals down the toilet or drain, or they may end up in a river near you.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an important new study suggests.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Seniors who switch between low-cost generic drugs and the original products based on who's footing the bill are likely driving up the cost of the government's Medicare drug plan, according to a new study.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey health officials say two men have died after contracting Legionnaires' disease in a hospital.
BEIJING (AP) -- The European Union banned imports of baby food containing Chinese milk on Thursday as tainted dairy products linked to the deaths of four babies turned up in candy and other Chinese-made goods that were quickly pulled from stores worldwide.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health insurance premiums rose a modest 5 percent this year for coverage that's getting skimpier, researchers say.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just about everybody needs a flu vaccine -- unless you're an infant or a healthy adult hermit -- but far too few of the Americans who need protection the most get it.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Inhaler drugs used by millions of people with emphysema and bronchitis may slightly raise the risk for heart attacks and even death, a study suggests.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A regulatory group told hospitals Wednesday to adopt strict measures to prevent errors involving blood thinners including heparin -- mistakes that have been made nearly 60,000 times and led to dozens of deaths in recent years.
BEIJING (AP) -- China's agriculture minister acknowledged Tuesday that the country's milk-gathering system was "out of control" and led to abuses that put contaminated dairy products in stores across Asia, sickening some 54,000 babies and killing four.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials on Tuesday launched a crackdown against several companies that market an eye wash and a widely used skin cream without government approval, saying these prescription medications could pose risks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- First Bari Martz's fingers turned blue. Then she started gasping for breath, and her joints stiffened so that she couldn't even open her hands. Doctors diagnosed scleroderma, part of an insidious family of diseases where the immune system attacks a patient's own body, sometimes enough to kill.
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