Health

Experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are warning that anyone planning to attend state fairs should take care around pigs due to a new strain of swine flu that has been passing from...

Testing of more than 3, 000 people who may have been infected with hepatitis C at a New Hampshire by an alleged “serial infector” was canceled this weekend, leaving some former patients scared and angr...

Motorcycle helmet laws exist in most states but not all of them make wearing a helmet a universal requirement for motorcyclists. States with those laws also see increased helmet use and that keeps riders saf...

The American Red Cross says its national blood supply is at its lowest level in 15 years because of severe weather combined with a markedly slow summer of donations. Summer is typically a time when don...

A study of black gay and bisexual men in six U.S. cities found HIV infection rates that were 50 percent higher than among their white counterparts, and rates were even higher for men under the age of 30 in ...

In a Bangkok go-go bar, a prostitute in a transparent miniskirt who goes by the name “Joy” said she’s ready to benefit from one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs in the 30-year fight against AIDS....

The New York state Attorney General's office is suing the former head of the New York chapter of the nation's largest abortion-rights advocacy group, accusing her of using more than $250,000 in charitable fu...

A simple invention could save thousands of lives and drastically reduce the amount of time and expense in screening patients for cancer. The cancer-detecting breathalyzer system was unveiled on June 2 at the a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The mayor of Cambridge has proposed limiting the size of soda and sugar-sweetened beverages sold in city restaurants, saying she was inspired by a similar measure in New York C...

Such wills could be overturned if the subject’s mental capacity is subsequently questioned, meaning that a doctor must assess them at the time they make their decisions. The judgment, handed ...