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Pharmaceutical executives laid out plans Friday to prevent the misuse of prescription painkillers, under pressure from regulators trying to stop hundreds of fatal overdoses each year. Read More

Two Brazilian officials accompanying President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on a trip to Germany have been diagnosed with swine flu. Read More

Doctors and hospitals should stop using a device from Steris Corp. to sterilize surgical tools after reports of malfunction, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Read More

Health officials say swine flu infections continue to wane, with only half the states reporting widespread cases. Read More

It was a story meant to captivate the United Nations: A dozen Cuban children with heart defects were forced to endure unnecessary surgery because the U.S. embargo blocked them from receiving American-made catheters. Read More

The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose. Read More

Health officials are warning the public about fake e-mails inviting people to sign up for swine flu vaccine registrations. Read More

The new U.S. Surgeon General on Thursday called for stepped-up efforts in increasing the number of minority physicians. Read More

When pregnant Cambodian women suffer morning sickness, they often reach for an unlikely source of relief: a wad of chewing tobacco. Read More

Hospitals are giving faster care to lots more heart attack patients, a speed-up sure to be saving lives. Read More

A robotic hand has been successfully connected to an amputee, allowing him to feel sensations in the artificial limb and control it with his thoughts, a group of European scientists said Wednesday. Read More

South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation hardest hit by the virus that causes AIDS. Read More

U.S. health regulators have warned Tyson Foods about unsanitary conditions at a Texas plant that makes seafood soups. Read More

Consumers are increasingly turning to the Web to compare medical fees as the economy and less generous health benefits squeeze household budgets. Read More

Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries. Read More

Learning anatomy with cadavers is a centuries-old rite of passage that once again is getting a face-lift as medical schools struggle to mix this core knowledge with an explosion of new information from the genetics revolution. Read More

Color-coded denim cloths cover the row upon row of black body bags atop cold metal tables. Blue means a body that eventually will go into a common grave. Tan, the family wants those remains back for burial, eventually. Read More

The first rigorous study of behavior treatment in autistic children as young as 18 months found two years of therapy can vastly improve symptoms, often resulting in a milder diagnosis. Read More

People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday. Read More

Some common strategies employers are using or planning to limit the spread of swine flu among their work force and keep operations going normally: Read More