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The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.

Dozens of people shared stories of losing loved ones to suicide on CNN.com's iReport. They're part of a growing movement that openly speaks out about the experience, despite the stigma.

You know what the flu looks like, don't you? Fever, aches and pain, sometimes an upset stomach. But an estimated 10 to 50 percent of H1N1 flu cases are showing up without fever -- long thought of as the flu's defining feature.

Procter & Gamble is recalling Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the United States, Britain and Germany after finding it contained bacteria, the company said.

Aisha's Fish and Chicken is named for Stanley Walker's 16-year-old daughter; it's a small family business known for its wings, catfish and signature sauce.

New recommendations on breast and cervical cancer screening have been met with anger and confusion, not to mention a measure of political posturing.

New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and go for screening less often than had been previously recommended.

Increasing the levels of a message-carrying chemical in the brain may help prevent some of the memory deficits in Down syndrome.

The Senate majority leader’s deep personal involvement in assembling the overhaul of the health care system has led the measure to the brink of a historic Senate debate.

The clinician showed that three antibiotics could be safely combined to provide a cure, providing the template for later combination therapies for cancer and AIDS.

The Preventive Services Task Force, which urged women to get less-frequent screening for breast cancer, was created to be apolitical.

The University of Nebraska would be the first such institution to set stricter limits than what national or state law allows.

The players union says that Dr. Ira Casson is too biased to be the co-chairman of the league’s committee on concussions.

Young women should have their first Pap test no sooner than age 21, regardless of when they become sexually active, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Earlier screening for cervical cancer may lead to unnecessary and possibly harmful treatments for an increasingly rare cancer, according to ACOG, the leading U.S. professional organization for obstetricians and gynecologists.

Senator Harry Reid scheduled the first crucial procedural vote on the major health care legislation for Saturday, after what is expected to be two marathon days of debate.

Students ejected from Minnesota home games for alcohol-related disturbances must meet with a counselor and submit to game-day breath analysis.

The nation, where one out of eight babies are born prematurely each year, earned a D from the March of Dimes.

Somebody told me about a group of HIV positive ladies in the Epworth Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) clinic in Zimbabwe who had formed a football team and every time they won a match, they would march through the clinic in their football jerseys singing uplifting songs in order to inspire other HIV-infected people like them.

A government task force says women in their 40s don't need annual mammograms, but Sara Fought would beg to differ: She says she's alive today because a routine mammogram found cancer when she was 42.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force said this week that women should not begin routine mammograms until age 50, contradicting well-established advice and creating a mini-storm. Who is this task force and what authority do they have?