The American Cancer Society (ACS), which does not recommend the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test -- a standard screening for men since the 1990s -- has urged doctors to speak to their patients about its risks and its limits.(ACS)... [more »]

Date: 13 March 2010, 1:37 pm

A doctor is pictured preparing a vaccine. A special US court Friday ruled against the parents of an autistic child, rejecting their claim of a connection between autism and a triple vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) their son was given.(AF…... [more »]

Date: 13 March 2010, 1:33 pm

Health officials have ordered the makers of the Plavix to add a warning to its packets saying the drug may be less effective in preventing heart attacks in people who cannot metabolize it properly.(AFP/File/Robert Sullivan)... [more »]

Date: 13 March 2010, 5:09 am

The blood thinner Plavix which is used to prevent heart attacks and strokes is pictured in a Miami, Florida pharmacy in 2007. US health officials Friday ordered the makers of the Plavix to add a boxed warning to its packets saying the drug may be les…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 4:46 pm

A scientific researcher handles frozen embryotic cells in a laboratory. Japanese scientists have used chick and zebrafish embryos to uncover how thalidomide led to deformities in children born to mothers taking the drug in the 1950s and 1960s, accord…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 11:40 am

Doctors performing heart surgery. Thousands of cardiologists from around the world descend on Atlanta, Georgia this weekend to discuss the latest advances, treatments and care strategies to combat heart disease.(AFP/File/Arnaud Roux)... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 11:05 am

Filipino Roman Catholic Church supporters picket outside the Philippines health department to denounce a government programme to distribute free condoms to fight AIDS, claiming the rubber was unsafe. Seven in 10 Filipinos would defy the powerful Roma…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 11:02 am

A Romanian man gets vaccinated against swine flu in Bucharest in January 2010. The World Health Organisation has said that swine flu has claimed at least 16,713 lives around the world since it was first uncovered in Mexico and the United States last…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 9:20 am

A hijacked commercial plane crashes into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in New York. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totaling 657 million dollars…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 5:46 am

Firemen and rescue personnel work at the site of the World Trade Center in New York in September 2001. More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totaling 657 million doll…... [more »]

Date: 12 March 2010, 5:46 am