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Pfizer Inc. was slapped this week with a record $2.3 billion in fines for illegally marketing some drugs, but critics say even that eye-popping total is unlikely to end the practice.

Will you start seeing thermometers at day care centers? The government is urging the nation's 360,000 child care providers to be vigilant about sending home children who may have the flu — and the main symptom to check for is a fever.

A vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline blocks the virus that causes most cases of cervical cancer, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

The care offered at health clinics in retail stores often costs less and is just as good as that offered at doctors' offices and urgent care centers, says the first large-scale study of U.S. retail clinics.

The era of swine flu poses the challenge of how to express cordiality, friendship, even love — while staying three to five feet away from anyone who may be infected with the H1N1 virus.