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Iowa public health officials reported on Wednesday the first confirmed case of H1N1 flu in a house pet: a cat

A new study of more than 1,000 cases of hospitalization due to H1N1, or swine flu, in California gives a clearer picture of who is apt to develop severe cases of the disease

Without general anesthesia, modern surgery and medical intervention would be crippled. But what do doctors really know about the long-term effects of these mysterious drugs?

A debate is heating up in the European Union over fatty acids. Should foodcompanies be required to differentiate on labels between omega-3s that comefrom fish and the slightly less-beneficial kind that come from plants?

Many consumers are feeling deceived now that SIGG has been outed for failing to tell the public that its bottles were not BPA-free, at least not the ones that were manufactured before August 2008

As Hong Kong and other port cities try to reduce dangerous ship emissions, more and more solar-powered ferries and container ships are getting ready to hit the high seas

The German government has ordered two different batches of swine flu vaccine -- one with fewer side effects for government officials and soldiers, another for everyone else. Not only are Germans irate, but they're also avoiding getting the jab

Despite our stable agrarian society and medical advances that help us live into old age, the effects of natural selection are still at work on the modern human species, researchers say

Have you seen your assistant surgeon? In too many cases these days, the second surgeon in the operating room is missing, due to lack of payment

Forty years after the FDA banned cyclamate, the first artificial sweetener, there's still no consensus about how these additives affect the human body

As H1N1 season gets going, parents need to make sure their local day-care center is not a breeding ground for the virus. Day-care center owners, for their part, need to protect their business

Several cases in recent years -- in California, New Mexico, Texas and New York, as well as Canada -- have garnered attention because a child's obesity resulted in loss of custody

According to sources with a firsthand look at the data, results of the first successful AIDS vaccine trial may have been a fluke

Studies find that the confounding beneficial effect of placebos has an equally mysterious flip side: the nocebo effect

Studies suggest that babies who are born during flu pandemics -- such as the current H1N1 pandemic -- have certain health effects later in life.

With fake drugs now accounting for about half of all medicines purchasedonline, health experts are calling on governments need to step up efforts tocombat the illicit industry

An early trial suggests that addiction vaccines could theoretically work, but researchers have doubts that they will ever get to market