Reuters reports one in four new infections occurs in Asia, home to more than half the world's people, and 1,500 in the region die from the disease each day.

Officials and aid workers said the risk of AIDS in areas struck by the tsunami had increased due to the breakdown in basic services and health-care systems, which left many people without access to condoms

Pfizer Inc. announces it is calling off development of two experimental drugs because of poor trial results.

Pfizer has been developing an HIV therapy and a treatment for asthma and lung disease in collaboration with Germany's Altana AG. According to an Associated Press report, Pfizer had to scrap its development program midway when experiments didn't show any favorable results for the patients

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According to a report by WCVB-TV in Boston, between one-half and three-quarters of all expectant parents now want to learn the sex of their baby before delivery. This latest home gender test will allow pregnant moms to know before they're even showing

ederal health officials estimate the price tag of lost productivity due to early deaths caused by smoking.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported smoking-related lung cancer, heart disease, and other illnesses cut life expectancy an average of about 14 years

This year's first reported fungus attack on U.S. tobacco plants is coming out of Kentucky.

Reportedly, tests revealed blue mold spores on nine acres of a farm near Cecilia, Kentucky, 45 miles southwest of Louisville