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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 ...

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 ...

Small businesses, hammered by stiff premium increases, are badly in need of a better business model for providing health care to their employees.

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, ...

Am I the only one feeling a tad insulted by the reasoning behind the new guidelines for breast cancer screening? I know, I know, the study was supposed to be a dispassionate, ...

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.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - A boil water notice is in effect for the City of Portland west of the Willamette River and customers of Palatine Hill, Burlington and Valley View water districts.

The holiday season can mean a prime time for travel. With the large crowds and jammed flights comes heightened concerns of travelers contracting the H1N1 swine flu virus.

Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is shouldering the weight of his father's anti-abortion legacy in the health care debate. By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON - Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania wants to talk about health care, Medicare, ...

Special circumstances: “Ms. M's” daughter will be having surgery in December. “Ms. M” won't be able to work until her daughter recovers from surgery.

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.

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

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

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.

Red Door Restaurant owner Joe Folley guts his East Grace Street eatery replacing ceiling tiles, carpeting and walls as he readies for the Dec. 1 smoking prohibition.

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 ...