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Luke Sharrett/The New York Times Proposals for a government-run health insurance plan have proven divisive. As the Senate begins debate this week on health care legislation, the question of whether to keep the bill's provision ...

CORDELE - When the Red Cross bloodmobile visits here next week, staff will be asking volunteer donors, “why do you give?” Cordele's monthly blood drive is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 1 from 1 to 6 pm at the Community Clubhouse.

SHANGHAI, CHINA (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing it, a United Nations report said ...

Cases of diabetes will soar and the cost of treating the disease will triple, according to a new report. (CNN) -- The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years, ...

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.

A deluge of uninsured patients may swamp the health care system in the wake of the end of federally subsidized benefits for the uninsured.

(CNN) -- Air travelers bracing themselves for the annual Thanksgiving rush this week may have something else to fret about: passengers who could be bringing a little extra baggage of the viral kind on board.

AP The protesters held signs and distributed fliers Friday outside the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's headquarters downtown.

(11.25.09) Ian Coleman (rolling fa mostly inished biketo his work station for some final touches) has volunteered with the Salvation Army's Christmas Bureau building bicycles for about nine years.

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 Portland Water Bureau issued a boil water notice Saturday after E.coli bacteria were found in a Washington Park reservoir. According to a release, customers west of the Willamette River and in the Valley View, Burlington and Palatine Hill water ...

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.

Agriflu will be administered as a single injection in the upper arm and is available in prefilled syringes, the FDA says. (CNN) -- The US Food and Drug Administration said Friday it has approved a new vaccine to prevent seasonal influenza.

Belgium's Rom Houben uses his touchscreen and assistance of his speech therapist Linda Wouters, left, to communicate during an interview in Zolder, Belgium, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.

Be sure to get in a little Turkey Trotting over the holiday weekend. As we start the Holiday Eating Season, you will want to move more to keep from packing on the pounds.

Authorities in Lawrence County have been looking for a missing woman for more than a day. Florence Tkach, 79, of Aberdeen, Ohio, walked away from a family Thanksgiving gathering on Wednesday night on ...