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The Anne Arundel County Department of Health and the county school system are partnering to administer H1N1 vaccine in nine area schools.

HONOLULU - On Tuesday, December 1, the Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) will be collaborating with volunteers, community agencies, and AIDS services organizations to observe annual World AIDS Day.

The US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation on mammograms is backed up by a study. But one bit of data is alive and kicking because of the test.

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.

Even if the percentage of Americans who are obese stays the same, diabetes cases will nearly double in the US in the next 25 years and the cost of treating the disease will almost triple, according to a new study by researchers based at the University ...

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 ...

Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation's airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones.

(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.

For this week's Sunday Issue, we invite you to “Sound Off” on the impact health care reform would bring to the US in general and families in particular.

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.

When Paul Carroll lost his job in January, he and his wife, Kate, had a difficult, expensive choice: Do they keep their health insurance through his former employer, even though it would mean bearing the full cost of ...

(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.

An anti-smoking law will go into effect Tuesday that will ban smoking in a majority of the state's restaurants. Although many local dining establishments already voluntarily made their ...

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria), 2 Political Junkies They'll be a protest today at UPMC headquarters in downtown Pittsburgh to demand that Braddock Hospital stay open.