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JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- A South African pharmaceutical manufacturer is fighting moves here to ban a painkiller that has been removed from the shelves in the U.S. and Europe because of fears it could harm the heart....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The U.N. says a medical emergency has been declared in northern Angola following confirmation a 14-month-old boy has contracted a new wild polio virus....

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The elfin child with the big personality and bright smile calls herself "the first lady" and dreams of the future.

But doctors say 12-year-old Ontlametse Phalatse has only, perhaps, another couple of years to live.

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The United Nations says more and better trained midwives could help save millions of lives in many countries with high death rates among newborns and women giving birth....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- When AIDS counselor Patience Ncusani urges teens in her Soweto neighborhood to wait to have sex, or cautions young women that an older boyfriend can be deadly, she has special rapport....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- The U.N. says the global AIDS epidemic has slowed and cited a drop in new HIV infections....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African police say a hospital has pleaded guilty in an organ trafficking case, including to removing organs from five minors between 2001 and 2003....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- Health officials in South Africa said Wednesday they recommend screening all HIV patients for tuberculosis and want automatic TB tests for HIV patients to become normal procedure within five years....

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- For hundreds of years, indigenous South Africans have chewed a plant they say reduces stress, relieves hunger, sedates and elevates moods.

Now they have a license to study and market it, and plan to sell it over-the-counter worldwide....