WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Clearer U.S. guidelines on how to treat elderly heart attack patients appear to have saved lives, with a marked reduction in heart attack deaths over 10 years, researchers reported Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adverse events like fainting or nausea remain rare among young women and girls given Merck and Co’s Gardasil vaccine against cervical cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was up to national regulatory authorities to decide whether to extend the shelf life of the flu drug Tamiflu by two years, as recommended by Swiss drug maker Roche.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Severe sleep apnea raises the risk of dying early by 46 percent, U.S. researchers reported Monday, but said people with milder sleep-breathing problems do not share that risk.

Short people are carded, teased, dateless, discounted, and some say, earn less.

Research says Mozart may have died from a strep infection, not poison or fever.

Health officials say only a third of planned doses will be ready by mid-October.

For President Obama, giving up on a public insurance plan could punch a hole in Republican arguments but could also alienate liberal Democrats.

Organization, not experience, plays the chief role in trauma patients’ survival.

To some, trying to remake the health care system without a Medicare administrator is like fighting a war without a general.