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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 ...

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, ...

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.

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, ...

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

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.

(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.

(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.

MADISON - With the holidays arriving, the Colonial Crossroads Chapter of the American Red Cross has gift items that can be appreciated by anyone.

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 ...

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 ...