Health

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senators writing a health care overhaul bill have rejected a Republican amendment that could have put the sweeping measure on hold....

BANGKOK (AP) -- For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- During a routine check of a watch tower at a U.S. military base in Kuwait, an Army sergeant found the for-hire guard leaning back in a chair, his sunglasses on, sound asleep. When the soldier woke the guard, an employee of a defense contractor named Combat Support Associates, he denied he'd dozed off while on duty....

An experimental vaccine provided modest protection against HIV infection in a clinical test, a first in the decades-long search for a vaccine to fight AIDS.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

As public health officials kick into high gear over swine flu, there's word that a vaccine for regular seasonal flu might not be as effective as first believed. Researchers at the University of Michigan found that FluMist, which is inhaled, was only half as effective as a regular flu shot for ordinary seasonal flu. » E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us