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How often you promised to watch your diet and exercise after our Thanksgiving feast? If anyone needs an incentive to stick to those goals, a new study that came out Friday could do the trick.

MORE people stepped forward this year to be tested for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an encouraging sign, though the Health Ministry still wants those in the high-risk groups to get tested regularly.

Mammograms are the new "death panels," the latest in the arsenal of lies Republicans have used to shoot down health care reform.

By Editorial Board For all the talk about test votes and public options, health care reform remains a relatively nebulous concept to most people.

A two-year-old girl in Korea has reportedly contracted the H1N1 virus a second time in just two months, making it the first such case in the country.

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 ...

Our brains can be fooled into perceiving one speech sound as a completely different one if the sound is accompanied by an inaudible puff of air, Canadian researchers have found.

PASCASGOULA, MS (WLOX) - The Southeast Chapter of the American Red Cross has come up with an alternative way to give gifts this holiday season.

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.

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

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.

SILICON VALLEY -- Today has been declared a Winter Spare The Air day in the Bay Area. The Thanksgiving burning ban covers wood stoves, outdoor fire pits and indoor fireplaces.

By Sue-Lyn Erbeck Special to the Tribune Bluesy riffs and jazzy notes offer a soothing counterpoint to the bustle within Chicago's airport terminals.

Rumor is still alive that eating turkey at your Thanksgiving dinner makes you feel tired because turkey contains high levels of tryptophan, an amino acid that can be transformed into a sleep-inducing hormone called serotonin.

WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) is reminding folks in southwest Michigan to keep our troops and veterans foremost in their thoughts by participating in the Holiday Mail for Heroes program.