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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.

Kathleen Pratt was 17, just out of high school and focused on the future when she was infected with HIV. She didn't know for a decade.

Boston (DbTechNo) - Doctors across the country are scratching their heads after the US Preventive Services Task Force released new recommendations related to breast cancer and mammograms.

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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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