MONACO (AP) — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Babies squirmed and wailed as needles plunged into their chubby thighs at a public health clinic on the outskirts of Hanoi on Friday. Like little ones everywhere, the...

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:

Nov. 15

San Antonio Express-News, on the swine flu vaccine:

Health and Human Services...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.

Yet even though cheap...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — OraSure Technologies Inc., which makes diagnostic kits to detect HIV and drug use, said Thursday it will pay Inverness Medical $3 million to settle a patent dispute...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — In a Nov. 18 story about the vaccine industry, The Associated Press misspelled the surname of a government official quoted in the story. The director of the federal...

LONDON (AP) — Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu — most notably quarantines imposed by...

HAVANA (AP) — China's health minister said Wednesday his country is vaccinating 1.5 million people a day against swine flu, part of a mammoth effort to reach nearly 7 percent of...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection vaccine is safe and effective for infants and toddlers,...

Weak home building a drag on economic recovery

WASHINGTON — The budding economic recovery isn't getting much help from the home-building industry, which normally creates jobs and...

MONACO (AP) — Gender tests on South African world champion Caster Semenya have not been completed, the International Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday.

The IAAF...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A CT scan — a kind of super X-ray — provides a faster, cheaper way to diagnose a heart attack when someone goes to the emergency room with chest pains, a new study...

MOSCOW (AP) — Former NATO chief George Robertson and movie actress Michelle Yeoh urged world leaders Wednesday to treat traffic accidents as though they were a killer disease.

Road...

MARIETTA, Pa. (AP) — Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies.

"We think of it as...

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota judge has closed the case of a teenager forced by the court to undergo chemotherapy against his family's wishes.

Brown County Judge John Rodenberg...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Forget cookies and milk. Santa wants the swine flu vaccine.

Many of the nation's Santas want to be given priority for the vaccine and not just because...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A day after Poniard Pharmaceuticals Inc. said its drug candidate picoplatin failed to improve survival for patients with lung cancer, the company reported...

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of digital mammogram system maker Hologic Inc. fell Tuesday after a government task force recommended that women wait longer before having mammograms, and have the...

NEW YORK (AP) — For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences.

Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure...

DALLAS (AP) — Immigrant girls and women will no longer have to be vaccinated against a sexually transmitted virus to get their green cards.

Starting Dec. 14, the HPV, or human...

BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG said Tuesday a U.S. clinical study suggests that half a dose of its swine flu vaccine may be sufficient to protect people from...