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China is becoming the biggest producer of pharmaceutical ingredients in the world ? but the F.D.A. inspects just a tiny fraction of China's drug plants. Can we be sure what we're taking is safe?

Patients with a rare blood disorder welcome a Department of health decision to fund their expensive treatment.

SEATTLE -- The American Lung Association is dissolving its Northwest affiliate and wants the rogue group to hand over ownership of its multimillion-dollar Seattle headquarters, which it sold for $10.

MASS vaccination of Scottish schoolgirls against cervical cancer should have been delayed because not enough is known about possible side effects, a leading researcher claimed

MORE than £500m will be slashed from the NHS budget over the next three years, forcing cuts in staff and frontline services such as accident and emergency and maternity care.

A BREAKTHROUGH by scientists could help cure deadly brain tumours in children, a new study claims.

The most shocking thing about the modern drug user? That she could be someone like you. Anna Moore talks to three 'ordinary' women about their struggles with addiction.

A woman who was served a bowl of ice-cream laced with faeces says the Sydney hotel that served it to her is trying to discredit her.

MBABANE, Swaziland (AP) -- Nelson Mdlovu strides out of the small clinic with a spring in his step and a smile on his lips just minutes after being circumcised....

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities....