<div><p>Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthier too, new research suggests.</p><p>Slashing carbon dioxide emissions could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies released Wednesday and published in a ...

<div><p>Climate change will imperil health through malaria, cholera, heatwaves and hunger, but many problems can be eased or avoided if countries make wise policy choices, doctors said on Wednesday.</p><p>In a series of papers issued ahead of the UN climate conference in Copenhagen, experts challenged governments to factor ...

<div><p>French doctors on Friday said they had used human embryonic stem cells to grow skin that one day may be used as potentially life-saving temporary patches for patients suffering bad burns.</p><p>The laboratory achievement has been tested on mice and not yet on human volunteers, but the researchers ...

<div><p>People at risk of suffering severe consequences from swine flu should postpone going to the hajj in 2009, according to a study released on Saturday.</p><p>Some 2.5 million Muslims from more than 160 countries converge annually on the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina in western ...