NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you take antidepressants such as fluoxetine (marketed as Prozac) early in your pregnancy, you may be doubling the risk that your newborn will be born with a heart defect, according to a new study.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening all men for prostate cancer using a currently available common blood test is not worthwhile, according to a new study.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A top U.S. health official says the first weeks of October are going to be “a little bumpy” as the government distributes the supply the swine flu vaccine ready next week — knowing it will not be enough.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An experimental AIDS vaccine made from two failed products has protected people for the first time, reducing the rate of infection by about 30 percent, researchers said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel considering a sweeping healthcare overhaul upheld a requirement on Thursday that individuals purchase health insurance and rejected a proposal that could have scuttled an billion White House deal with drugmakers.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Thursday it is recalling some lots of infants’ and children’s Tylenol because of a possible bacterial contamination of the popular pain and fever treatment.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. health officials said on Thursday more than 6 million doses of H1N1 swine flu vaccine will be available the first week of October, twice as many as they expected only a week ago.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Finance Committee rejected a Republican move on Wednesday to delay a final vote on a broad healthcare overhaul as it slowly waded through a crush of amendments on programs for the elderly.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Vaccinations against flu for the 2010 influenza season in the southern hemisphere should also contain viruses against the current pandemic H1N1 virus, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.