World Health News

The Senate narrowly overcame the first of two critical hurdles to passing sweeping health care legislation last night, mustering the minimum of 60 votes required to begin debate on the bill and opening a volatile floor fight likely to last...

Two conjoined twins separated in a 32-hour operation in Australia appear to be making a good recovery, the woman who has been caring for them says. Guardian Moira Kelly said the girls, Trishna and Krishna, who turn 3 on Dec...Trishna...

Let me try to sort this out for you, and in so doing explain why, at its core, the new recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Health Task Force really will lead to good things...We are simply being honest with women...

In a show of unity, Senate Democrats sealed a 60-vote majority needed to advance health care legislation Saturday ahead of an evening showdown with Republicans eager to doom the bill and inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama...Mary Landrieu...

The new guidelines, however, claim that women should be screened for cervical cancer at the age 21, rather than earlier in life. It also urges every two years instead of annual screening in those aged between 21 and 30, adding...

A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said. The victims of the virus were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an...

A military judge in Texas has found a former Air Force nurse accused of killing three terminally ill patients not guilty of murder. Fontana has been in the Air Force since 2006 and served a tour in Iraq in 2007....

The problem is that the screening test is not very helpful in preventing breast cancer deaths. Current estimates are that it reduces the death rate by 15 percent. If it were completely effective it would reduce the death rate by...

The updated totals come from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's weekly report. Last week, officials began reporting statewide deaths in the same way they are reported by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , which involves...