·Health Minister Chen Zhu was in Cancun, Mexico, for the first global meeting on A/H1N1 flu virus. ·Chen voiced his confidence to tackle a possible next wave of flu outbreak in autumn and winter.

MANSFIELD -- Ohio adults are the 10th fattest in the nation and the state is spending about $3.3 billion a year dealing with related health problems, according to a report released this week by a national health care foundation.

Actually, I don't understand why America is still talking about providing all its people with health insurance, as opposed to providing them with health care.

While storekeepers were frantically pulling E. coli-tainted cookie dough and beef from their shelves last month, scientists rolled out the country's first cattle vaccine to snuff out the potentially deadly bacteria.

Senate Democrats and President Obama, trying to assuage fears about the cost of health reform, yesterday touted new estimates that put the price tag for one bill at $611 billion over the next decade.

Jeff Dorsey, left, president and chief executive officer of Health One, talks while Dr. Donald Leftkowits, acting medical staff president at Rose Medical Center, right, looks on during a news conference in Denver on Thursday, July 2, ...

BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentine stocks caught cold when New York sneezed Thursday, posting broad losses on the back of a weak payroll report in the US and a resulting slide in crude oil prices.

WASHINGTON - Federal drug regulators warned Wednesday that patients taking two popular drugs to stop smoking should be watched closely for signs of serious mental illness, as reports mount of suicides among the drugs' ...

Federal safety regulators have announced two large recalls of children's products, including one involving four million water toys, for serious safety hazards on the eve of the Fourth of July holiday weekend ...

The time is long overdue to change the fireworks laws in New York to provide for sensible and regulated use of all consumer fireworks.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Food distributors across the country announced on Thursday they are recalling nonfat dry milk, cocoa and other products that are linked to a possible salmonella contamination at a Plainview, Minn.

This intriguing blog post by Michael Cannon, the libertarian Cato Institute's resident healthcare guy, got me thinking more about the news Tuesday that Wal-Mart supports a federal mandate that most employers provide health insurance.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Since its opening last week, camp counselors at New Jersey's Liberty Lake Day Camp disinfect door knobs, take the temperatures of children as they arrive and remind the campers not to share canned sodas.

BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhuanet)-- Late Blight--the fungus that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s--has been hitting hard tomato plants in the eastern United States.

In the United States, celiac disease is four times more common now than it was 50 years ago, according to a study cited by Webmd.com.

July 2, 2009 -- Sunscreens are improving, but three of five brand-name products either don't protect the skin from sun damage sufficiently, contain hazardous chemicals, or both, according to a report by the watchdog organization ...

THURSDAY, July 2 (healthday News) -- Multaq (dronedarone) tablets have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to promote a normal heart rhythm in people with atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter.

Skin cancer rates for younger Canadians are climbing, however the number of dermatologists available is set to decline over the next several years.

The American Cancer Society's "Relay For Life" is three weeks from tonight here in Sioux Falls. The relay starts Friday night, July 24th at 6 PM and runs until 6 AM Saturday morning.