Americans without health insurance will spend $30 billion out of pocket on medical care this year, according to a new report by George Mason University and the Urban Institute.
Some 650 of the 8,000 Iraqi physicians who fled the country since 2003 due to violence have returned to their jobs in the past two months because of improved security
Canadian health officials have linked a deadly listeriosis outbreak to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, prompting the company to expand of its recall of meat products.
His 2006 exploration with his brother brought about awareness – and a fear of bugs
Singapore is considering legalizing kidney trading to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said Monday
A New York City plan to test a borough's entire adult population for HIV is meeting resistance from health workers
Romanian authorities plan to decide Friday whether to allow an 11-year-old girl to have an abortion after she was raped by her teenage uncle, the Romanian Ministry of Health said Thursday.
$300 million initiative seeks to improve the quality of health care and to eventually provide models for national health reform
Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Broken Government: Health Care: Critical Condition when it airs commercial-free on Monday, May 19, 2008, from 4:00 -- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)
The death toll from China's outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has climbed to 28 -- all of them children -- the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
Americans without health insurance will spend $30 billion out of pocket on medical care this year, according to a new report by George Mason University and the Urban Institute.
Some 650 of the 8,000 Iraqi physicians who fled the country since 2003 due to violence have returned to their jobs in the past two months because of improved security
Canadian health officials have linked a deadly listeriosis outbreak to a Maple Leaf Foods plant in Toronto, prompting the company to expand of its recall of meat products.
His 2006 exploration with his brother brought about awareness – and a fear of bugs
Singapore is considering legalizing kidney trading to help meet demand for kidney transplants, the city-state's health minister said Monday
A New York City plan to test a borough's entire adult population for HIV is meeting resistance from health workers
Romanian authorities plan to decide Friday whether to allow an 11-year-old girl to have an abortion after she was raped by her teenage uncle, the Romanian Ministry of Health said Thursday.
$300 million initiative seeks to improve the quality of health care and to eventually provide models for national health reform
Record the CNN Special Investigations Unit Classroom Edition: Broken Government: Health Care: Critical Condition when it airs commercial-free on Monday, May 19, 2008, from 4:00 -- 5:00 a.m. ET on CNN. (A short feature begins at 4:00 a.m. and precedes the program.)
The death toll from China's outbreak of hand-foot-mouth disease has climbed to 28 -- all of them children -- the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
China's Health Ministry strengthened surveillance and dispatched specialists to the eastern Anhui province as the death toll from a virulent virus climbed to 22, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Sen. John McCain on Monday rejected a "big government" takeover of the health care system, saying he wants to empower families to make more medical decisions.
Taliban militants opened fire at a military ceremony in the capital Sunday morning. A lawmaker, tribal leader and 10-year-old child were killed, but President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt, according to an official and a statement from Karzai's office.
Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care
Soldiers and firefighters have joined the fight against dengue, a sometimes deadly mosquito-borne disease that has infected at least 55,000 people in Brazil this year.
Climate change means more than warming at the poles. It can intensify disease and famine and endanger human health
More than 55,000 cases of dengue, a sometimes deadly mosquito-borne disease, have been reported in a southeastern Brazilian state in the past four months, authorities said Thursday.
Argentinians planning to travel to the northern part of the country, Brazil and Paraguay were lining up for vaccinations Tuesday, because of a yellow fever breakout that has killed at least 21 people in the region.
When Christine had a hysterectomy in September, her doctor told her it would take about a week to recover from the laparoscopic procedure.
A study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that 151,000 Iraqis died of violent causes between March 2003, when the war began, and June 2006.
Eight cases of bird flu among people have been confirmed in Pakistan, the first such cases in the country, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
A 40-year-old woman who lived in the southern Baghdad outskirts has died of cholera, the 12th death in Iraq from a recent outbreak of the disease, an Iraqi Health Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The American Cancer Society is devoting its entire $15 million advertising budget for 2007 to highlight the problems faced by Americans who don't have any or enough health insurance.
A cancer patient lying on a gurney waiting to be treated was fatally bitten by a snake, a hospital in western Thailand said Friday.
New Zealand on Wednesday asked retailers and consumers to dispose of 11 brands of Chinese-made toothpaste after tests confirmed they contained toxic chemicals.
China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending its food safety standards and repeating what is becoming a standard line that more than 99 percent of its food exports are up to standard.
John Edwards and Hillary Rodham Clinton tussled over accepting campaign contributions from powerful health care groups Monday at a forum on cancer that attracted four Democratic hopefuls.
U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.
The nation's health care system should be overhauled through plans tailored to individual states, not through a federal government takeover, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said Friday.
In response to a letter Michael Moore wrote about CNN's reporting on his documentary "Sicko," a CNN spokesperson released the following statement:
Filmmaker Michael Moore, whose new documentary "Sicko" takes on America's health care system, faced off Tuesday with CNN chief medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
Under pressure after a U.S. move against Chinese seafood and a huge recall of Chinese toothpaste in Japan, Beijing urged trade partners on Friday to accept its products unless they violate contract terms or local regulations.
Critics say corruption persists in Russian health care despite Russia's booming economy and its decision to spend billions to improve the health care system
Authorities in northern Nigeria have filed a $2 billion civil case and were preparing criminal charges against the U.S. drug company Pfizer
Da Silva announced a new program Monday to sharply decrease unwanted pregnancies in Latin America's largest nation by subsidizing birth control pills
What matters in politics is not just how many people are on each side of an issue, but also how much they care about it.
In a partnership of unlikely allies, Wal-Mart's CEO, other corporate leaders and the head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) called Wednesday for universal health care coverage for all Americans by 2012.
A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden truck in a crowded Baghdad market Saturday, killing at least 128 people and wounding 343 others, a Health Ministry official said.
Lots of people make excuses to avoid going to the doctor, but men are real pros, says Dr. Jean Bonhomme, president and co-founder of the National Black Men's Health Network.
A 2-year-old Indonesian boy became the country's latest fatality from bird flu, dying Monday morning, an official with the Bird Flu Information Center said.
Laborers, police officers and a family were among at least 13 people killed Wednesday across Baghdad, police said. Nearly 30 others were wounded.
Four car bomb attacks in less than three hours in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday left at least 23 people dead and 66 wounded, police told CNN.
Digging security trenches around Baghdad could help stop the city's daily suicide bomb attacks, car bombs, drive-by shootings and sectarian killings, the Iraqi government believes.
Poverty in the United States increased 20 percent between 2000 and 2004, census numbers show. And although the trend stalled in 2005, researchers worry poverty will have profound effects on public health in this country.
Despite prompting from two Democrats, General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner stopped short Thursday of asking Congress to take a broad-based reform of the health care system.
The deadly H5N1 bird flu strain that has killed at least 88 people around the world has been detected in Italy and Greece, according to officials.
Health officials in Azerbaijan say the deadly H5N1 strain has been found in dead birds from the country's Caspian sea coast.
China has recorded its sixth death from the avian flu virus, according to a report on the Chinese Health Ministry's Web site.
A 12-year-old girl who died Sunday has tested positive for the lethal H5N1 strain of bird flu, health officials said, bringing Turkey's death toll from the virus to four and the number of its human cases to 20.
A person who was admitted to a Brussels hospital with flu symptoms after returning from areas in Turkey affected by bird flu has tested negative for the virus, according to a Belgian government official.
We're greeted by an anxious-looking young woman, a stooped-over grandfather and a slender young man with a thin goatee and a white soccer shirt whose wife had just died.
A second Chinese woman is reported to have died from bird flu in the eastern Anhui province, the third confirmed human case in the country.
Somewhere in rural Asia, a bar-headed goose tramps through fields and puddles and makes itself comfortable inside the home of the farmer who owns her.
Indonesia said on Tuesday testing had confirmed that a man who died in September was positive for bird flu, raising the number of deaths from the virus in the country to four.
African health ministers have declared a tuberculosis emergency to muster greater political commitment to stop one of the continent's top killers, the United Nations' World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
The death toll from a mysterious disease apparently carried by pigs has reached 24, China's official Xinhua news agency has reported.
Nearly 25,000 civilians have been killed in Iraq since the start of the Iraq war, according to a group that tracks such statistics from media reports.
The government took its first steps towards President Bush's 10-year plan for a national health care network that would push the $1.6 trillion industry away from paper records and create electronic files for all Americans, according to a news report.
It's probably faster to list where the West Nile virus isn't than where it is. The mosquito-borne malady has nearly circled the globe since its 1937 discovery in Africa. North America is one of its latest conquests.
A patient in the Dutch city of Utrecht has been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a human form of mad cow disease, the Dutch Health Ministry said.
Lost in the fray of the public debate over Terri Schiavo, steroids and Social Security, a political revolution may be quietly taking hold this year, far away from the halls of Capitol Hill.
A Japanese man who died in December is believed to be the first person in Japan to die of the human variant of mad cow disease, Japanese Health Ministry officials said.
President Bush's State of the Union address raised support for his policies on health care and Social Security among people who watched the speech, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Wednesday night.
Turkish veterinarian Dr. Tashin Yesildere is stuck in holiday traffic. But it is not the cars that have him worked up -- it's the roadside tents of sheep and cows on sale for the Feast of the Sacrifice, known as "Bayram" in his country.
Just a day after a leader of Spain's Catholic Church remarked that condoms "have a place" in preventing the spread of AIDS, the church hierarchy responded Wednesday by insisting the comments do not mean any sudden loosening of its long-standing opposition to condoms.
The Indonesian Health Ministry said Wednesday that the December 26 earthquake and tsunamis killed 166,320 people in Indonesia, jumping the regional death toll for the disaster to 212,611.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University said Wednesday that early detection -- and not a pre-exposure vaccination -- is the key to limiting an outbreak of anthrax.
International health officials at an emergency meeting in Bangkok Monday said there is no evidence that bird flu has been passed from one human to another.
The Mehdi Army and Iraqi security forces started exchanging prisoners late Friday, according to an Iraqi police source.
Combat operations in Najaf were temporarily suspended late Friday to allow political negotiations with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to go forward, U.S. military officials reported.
At least 10 people were killed and 100 others injured when a leaking underground natural gas pipeline exploded in southern Belgium, officials said.
The audience cheered on Monday as Ohio Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich strode through the crowd on his mission to the microphone to address students at Portland Community College's Sylvania Campus.
Another suspected SARS case in Beijing has been confirmed by the health ministry, raising the total of confirmed cases in China to six -- four in Beijing and two in the southern Anhui province -- with three suspected cases in the Chinese capital.
China's Ministry of Health has confirmed a woman who died last week in Anhui province had SARS -- the first death from the illness this year.
Chinese health officials are keeping at least 470 people under observation, as they try to contain a small cluster of confirmed and suspected SARS cases in Beijing and the eastern province of Anhui.
China has reported a suspected case of the potentially deadly SARS virus in Beijing for the first time since an outbreak of the contagious disease subsided in July.
Even before the war began last year, Iraq's health system was in shambles. Doctors were isolated, resources were inadequate and patients went to hospitals to die. The war just made it worse.
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