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GAINESVILLE - World AIDS Day will be observed Tuesday to help raise awareness about the worldwide impact of HIV and AIDS. The local numbers for the disease remain high.

WASHINGTON - Maybe you've been reading the health care bill in your spare time. Then perhaps you can answer this question: If Congress makes history and puts a bill on President Barack Obama's desk by Christmas, how long before the uninsured get ...

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.

There's little debate about screening women ages 50 to 74. So why do so many slip through the cracks? By Katherine Hobson The recent brouhaha over breast cancer screening is about recommendations—what different experts say women of different ages ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - By 2034, nearly twice as many Americans will have diabetes and spending on the disease will triple, further straining the US health system and testing the viability of Medicare and other government health ...

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

In October 1976, President Gerald Ford was one of 43 million Americans to receive a vaccine for swine flu. (Charles Tasnadi/associated Press) By David Brown As more and more people receive the H1N1 shot, an earlier vaccine is casting a mysterious ...

I am pleased with the progress that has been made in getting a health-care bill to the president. In watching the actions of the Congress on C-SPAN, I often times find myself shouting to the person who is speaking.

The workers who were laid-off between Sept. 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009, were getting COBRA subsidy which pays 65 percent of their job-based health insurance premiums for nine months.

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.

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.

AP Breaking News Video BY ALEX DOTY In the spirit of the giving season, area residents and even Grand Haven city employees flocked to the Grand Haven Community Center Wednesday to donate their blood to the American Red Cross.

People listen with their skin, not just their ears. Air puffs delivered to volunteers' hands or necks at critical times alter their ability, for better or worse, to hear certain speech sounds, a new study finds.

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.

One was a middle-aged man who refused to get into the shower. The other was a teenager who was afraid to get out. Karen Quintal, with a Leksell frame screwed into her skull before surgery for a tumor.

Marion County 10-year-old Bernard Latimore was reported missing this morning. (Marion County Sheriff's Office, Marion County Sheriff's Office / November 27, 2009) The search for a missing 10-year-old autistic boy ended in tragedy Friday when he was ...