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AP - Is menthol a flavor that should be banned from cigarettes? That's a tricky question, according to the American Medical Association whose members on Tuesday found themselves opposing some government health heavyweights.

Although bird flu remains entrenched in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia and Vietnam, the situation is improving in the rest of the world due to measures taken by governments, the UN coordinator for the disease said Tuesday.

CHICAGO -- Is menthol a flavor that should be banned from cigarettes? That's a tricky question, according to the American Medical Association whose members on Tuesday found themselves opposing some government health heavyweights.

The Quebec government will spend $80 million on measures aimed at offsetting a chronic shortage of nurses in the provinces, health Minister Philippe Couillard announced Tuesday.

The policy of denying NHS services to patients who top up their care with private treatment is to be reviewed in England, the government says.

Hong Kong - Gay men in Hong Kong are accelerating the spread of HIV by having sex with men they meet over the internet or going to sex parties, a government doctor warned Tuesday. Studies by the city's Department of health discovered clusters of case...

Public hospital doctors say they are willing to concede some ground in their pay and conditions fight with the South Australian government.

The Rural Doctors Association (RDA) is calling on the Prime Minister to step in over South Australian government plans to reduce services at some country hospitals.

The authority at the centre of Newfoundland and Labrador's breast cancer testing problems was reluctant to share information with government, an inquiry has been told.

UPDATE: Obama's office sent a letter Tuesday to James Peake, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, on the issue. You can read the full text of the letter here.UPDATE II: Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, issued his own letter to Peake as well. You can read it here.The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington Times/ABC News investigation has found.In one such experiment involving the controversial anti-smoking drug Chantix, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) took three months to alert its patients about severe mental side effects. The warning did not arrive until after one of the veterans taking the drug had suffered a psychotic episode that ended in a near lethal confrontation with police.