Showing the emphasis that some lawmakers are putting on health care issues this year, former Sen. Tom Daschle will be the first of President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet choices to undergo a hearing.

At a confirmation hearing Thursday, Tom Daschle will most likely be asked about Barack Obama?s call for a new public health insurance plan.

The sister of a Vietnamese bird flu patient died in hospital last week, health officials said Thursday, while denying the virus was to blame, even though no tests were carried out before she was buried.

The NHS in Gloucestershire is to receive an extra £40m in to deliver health services in the county.

Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The death toll from a cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe rose to 1,778 after 35,931 people were infected with the bacterium, the World Health Organization said.

New York state should fight obesity, help more residents get health insurance and revive the upstate economy with a research consortium for hybrid car batteries and energy storage, Governor David Paterson proposed on Wednesday.

Tom Daschle may be in for a relatively easy time of it on Thursday, when his former Senate colleagues consider his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

House Democrats plan to give President-elect Barack Obama an early victory on health care, specifically children's health care, next week.