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The Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg has banned the shaking of hands between church-goers over concerns it could lead people to contract the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu.

According to one reader of The People's Pharmacy, the use of a breathing mask and straight oxygen for a few minutes has helped ease his 'suicide headaches.'

More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?

Abbott Laboratories is close to an agreement to buy Solvay SAa s pharmaceutical unit for as much as 5.2 billion euros to get full control of the TriCor cholesterol pill, according to three people with knowledge of the situation.

An estimated 35.6 million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, and the toll in developing countries is doubling, according to a new report.

Urinary incontinence is the involuntary leakage of urine; in simple terms, to wee when you don't intend to. It is the inability to hold urine in the bladder because voluntary control over the urinary sphincter is either lost or weakened. Urinary incontinence is a much more common problem than most people realize.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than 3,000 people a day have a heart attack. If you're one of them the day after your swine flu shot, will you worry the vaccine was to blame and not the more likely culprit, all those burgers and fries?...

The attorney for a Brockton man accused of killing two people and raping a third while fueled by white supremacist beliefs condemned the state yesterday, saying it is not providing the mental health c...

Let's remember that we're talking about flavored tobacco, because artificial additives like cherry, grape, chocolate, and spices such as cloves, appeal to youngsters. Let's also remember that in anticipation of the ban, cigarette makers had mostly stopped producing flavored cigarettes. Unfortunately, the law itself is vague in that it doesn't clearly define what a cigarette is. It comes down to wrapping. Cigarettes are wrapped in thin paper, cigars in tobacco leaves. While the cigars also are made with a different kind of tobacco, the taste is similar. The cigars come 12 to a pack, rather than 20 for cigarettes, but cost nearly half as much. . . . It makes no sense to ban flavors in cigarettes and then allow the industry to addict young people to flavored cigars.

What's happening in the world of Big Tobacco is particularly relevant to the debate over health care. We've known for decades that smoking is dangerous to our health, but despite stories about people who lose their vocal cords and worse to cancer, onerous sin taxes, public expressions of disgust and laws that forbid smoking just about everywhere (including, in one ironic instance, cigar shops), 3,600 children and teens start smoking every day; 1,100 develop the nicotine habit. Many of these new smokers are attracted to tobacco by flavored cigarettes . . . Through the years, Big Tobacco has, depending on your view, either displayed huge measures of ingenuity and marketing skills (Joe Camel comes to mind) or it's been crassly cynical in search of a waning market (flavored cigarettes being their latest trick to lure new smokers). But what about personal responsibility (remember that concept?) and self-control when temptation tugs at our appetites? Is a ban of chocolate cake (mercy!)