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By On Top Magazine Staff “Despite efforts to reduce the impact of HIV in the region, many of these factors have not been adequately addressed,” says the report.

Readers also ask about the penalties for not buying health insurance; changes that veterans would see; interstate insurance plans; and whether the 'public option' would cover mammograms.

Even if the percentage of Americans who are obese stays the same, diabetes cases will nearly double in the US in the next 25 years and the cost of treating the disease will almost triple, according to a new study by researchers based at the University ...

The US Preventative Services Task Force issued a recommendation that women 40 and younger should simply talk to their doctors about the benefits and risks of having a mammogram.

SIERRA VISTA - While there has been a Tamiflu resistance in some H1N1 patients with compromised immune systems, the World Health Organization does not believe it reflects a major change in the virus' susceptibility to the drug.

Sure, everybody should have health insurance. But I have a valid fear of this particular health care reform bill Pelosi is forcing through Congress.

Rom Houben, injured in a car crash in 1983 at age 20, was allehedly conscious during his 23-year coma. It's a hypochondriac's worst nightmare: You're powerless, paralyzed and unable to communicate for nearly a quarter of a century ...

Mt. Pleasant #2 Missionary Baptist Church, 490 Stone Road, Pinson, will hold appreciation services for Pastor Jimmy L. Godwin at 11 am and 2 pm Sunday.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced the deaths of two people who were infected with the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus.

This is the time of year when the American Red Cross steps up its efforts to collect blood donations, and there are several more blood drives set up in Southwest Michigan over the next month.

Thanks to the “brilliant” idea by area musician, Curt Boettcher, a group of Wasecans is holding its first ever holiday concert to benefit the Waseca County chapter of the American Red Cross.

Having recently been reminded by the state to adhere to guidelines for vaccine prioritization, the Board of Health will hold an appointment-only swine flu clinic Dec. 5 for town children ages 3 to 18.

ATLANTA (November 27, 2009)—A group that's billed as the largest one-day sit-down dinner and meals-on-wheels operation in the country is feeling the impact of the struggling economy.

Did Blue Cross Blue Shield go too far in its war of words against congressional health care reform? Rep. Pricey Harrison of Greensboro thinks so and now she's got company.