HAVANA (Reuters) - Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro "looks wonderful," World Health Organization director general Margaret Chan said on Wednesday, after meeting the ...
The Swiss government proposed Wednesday to restrict or even ban assisted suicide groups such as Dignitas in a bid to cut down on ...
Russia came under fire from international AIDS campaigners on Wednesday for refusing to provide drug users with drug substitution therapy to stem a spreading HIV epidemic. Russia's chief medical official Gennady Onishchenko told a major AIDS conference that Moscow opposed providing methadone ...
Health experts say Russia's abstinence approach no match for fast-growing AIDS epidemic AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase. ...
A thousand miles from the health care debate in Washington, Dr. Don Klitgaard and his colleagues are carrying out their own reform in a small Iowa community. They've reorganized their clinic so nurses bird-dog patients whose health problems, if ignored, could send ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some of the nation's largest companies pushed back against U.S. Democrats' plans to deliver a government-run insurance option in a healthcare overhaul, decrying it as a step backward that would drive up costs for employers and their workers. The ...
The death toll has risen to 80 after a massive bomb attack that ripped through a crowded Pakistani market on Wednesday, a hospital and local government official said. "Eighty people have been killed and 200 wounded in this blast," North West Frontier ...
The Canadian government on Wednesday asked plane, train, ferry and bus operators to be vigilant against the swine flu and allow ill passengers to rebook trips in order to help contain the pandemic. "To encourage people to stay home if they are ...
SciClone will cut 7 jobs in restructuring after canceling cancer drug trial SciClone Pharmaceuticals Inc. on Wednesday said it will cut 17 percent of its U.S. work force — or about 7 jobs — as part of a corporate restructuring. The restructuring ...
The Obama administration is considering a way to bring together patients, doctors, insurers and law officers to combat fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, a Health and Human Services official said Wednesday. The summit, still under consideration, would enhance an increased effort to ...
Washington Capitals forward Quintin Laing has swine flu; at least 3rd NHL player The Washington Capitals say forward Quintin Laing has the swine flu, making him at least the third NHL player to be diagnosed with the illness this week. Capitals spokesman ...
