WHO: 2 more cases of new virus in Jordan
International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East. The virus has so far sickened ...
Health officials: Athens has spiraling HIV crisis
Athens is seeing an alarming increase in new HIV infections, particularly among intravenous drug users, health officials warned Friday, as Greece ...

Kenya village pairs AIDS orphans with grandparents
There are no middle-aged people in Nyumbani. They all died years ago, before this village of hope in Kenya began. Only the young and old live here.

Gilda's Club name change insult to late comedian?
Remember Roseanne Roseannadana? Or Emily Litella? Or Baba Wawa? Younger generations might not recognize the characters popularized by comedian Gilda ...

Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off ...
Reeling Texas cancer agency OK'd faulty $11M award
Leaders of Texas' embattled $3 billion cancer-fighting effort approved an $11 million grant to a biomedical company even though the proposal wasn't ...
Starbucks to donate to RED for World AIDS Day
Starbucks Corp. is donating a portion of its proceeds on World AIDS Day to help fight the disease. The company announced Thursday it would give five ...

Clinton releases road map for AIDS-free generation
In an ambitious road map for slashing the global spread of AIDS, the Obama administration says treating people sooner and more rapid expansion of ...

Chinese AIDS patients fight hospital rejections
Wang Pinghe wants the tumor in his liver removed before it becomes life-threatening. But the 28-year-old Chinese villager knows it will be hard to ...
More NFL players testing positive for amphetamines
More NFL players are testing positive for amphetamines, a class of substances that includes the ADHD drug Adderall. Since the start of last season, ...

Peanut butter plant closure angers New Mexico town
Farmers in a revered peanut-growing region along the New Mexico-Texas border should be celebrating one of the best harvests in recent memory.
Family: NFL great Jack Pardee ill with cancer
Jack Pardee, one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys" who went on to become an All-Pro linebacker and an NFL coach, has been diagnosed with gall bladder ...
Hugo Chavez heading to Cuba for more treatment
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced plans to travel to Cuba as early as Tuesday for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 ...

Arafat grave dug up for probe of poison suspicion
Eight years after Yasser Arafat's mysterious death, his political heirs opened his grave Tuesday and let forensics experts take samples from his ...
CDC: HIV spread high in young gay males
Health officials say 1 in 5 new HIV infections occur in a tiny segment of the population — young men who are gay or bisexual. The government on ...
FDA suspends operations at peanut butter plant
The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a New Mexico peanut butter plant that had repeated food safety violations over several years, ...
FDA halts operations at peanut butter plant
The Food and Drug Administration halted operations of the country's largest organic peanut butter processor Monday, cracking down on salmonella ...

Judge rejects obese Ohio inmate's execution claim
A condemned killer trying to delay his execution because of his extreme weight hasn't raised enough new issues to warrant the legal challenge, a ...

Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report
Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf ...
German lab: Qatar man suffered from new virus
A patient from Qatar has been confirmed with a new virus related to SARS, while health officials are investigating whether it may have spread between ...

AP PHOTOS: Simple surgery heals blind Indonesians
They came from the remotest parts of Indonesia, taking crowded overnight ferries and riding for hours in cars or buses — all in the hope that a ...

Cal's Rogers carries on despite heart condition
For two years, Tierra Rogers cried herself to sleep each night as California's basketball team moved forward without her. Still grieving 20 months ...
3rd person dies in Calif. from mushroom poisoning
A third person has died from eating poisonous mushrooms at a California senior care facility where a caretaker found the fungus in the backyard and ...

Study finds mammograms lead to unneeded treatment
Mammograms have done surprisingly little to catch deadly breast cancers before they spread, a big U.S. study finds. At the same time, more than a ...

Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell offer custom recordings
Imagine having William Shatner supply your outgoing voicemail message. Or maybe you'd prefer Morgan Freeman coolly telling callers to wait for the ...