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Beijing - At least 34 children have died in an outbreak of hand, foot and mouth disease in China as the total number of infections has risen to 25,000, the official news agency Xinhua reported Friday. The toll rose with two more deaths in the eastern...

Some teenagers and young adults get high on drink and drugs to improve their sex lives, research suggests.

Teenagers who smoke marijuana put themselves at risk for future mental illness and higher rates of depression, according to a report to be released today by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

THE limit at which babies can survive after being born prematurely has been reached, researchers said yesterday, as debate continued over calls to update UK abortion laws.

LESLEY Angus was never partial to red wine - until she received a kidney from her big sister.

A CHILD in London has died from suspected diphtheria - the first such fatality in Britain for 14 years.

AP - There's a grim, rarely talked-about twist to all that medical know-how doctors learn to save lives: It makes them especially good at ending their own. An estimated 300 to 400 U.S. doctors kill themselves each year ? a suicide rate thought to be higher than in the general population, although exact figures are hard to come by.

The Bush administration proposed on Thursday to crack down on the aggressive marketing of private Medicare insurance plans.

A growing band of researchers is trying to redefine how diseases are classified - by looking at their genetic underpinnings.

Small medical practices provide essential services and ensure all patients have access to quality care. However, cuts to Medicare physician fee payments threaten to undermine the work of these firms. Committee Members heard from the Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).