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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.

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 ...

What Americans want is common-sense, responsible solutions that address the rising cost of health care and other major problems. The current bill being proposed in the Senate is unconstitutional.

By Letters to the Editor I was appalled by the new recommendations of the US Preventive Services Task Force on breast cancer detection.

Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- As H1N1 cases are rising, so are bacterial pneumonia cases, health officials are finding. They're seeing an increase in flu complications leading to pneumonia.

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 ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - With the holidays here, the American Red Cross says the perfect gift is as close as the nearest blood drive. That's certainly true for Hutchinson businessman Dennis ...

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.

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.

BY GIS The British Virgin Islands were represented at a recent workshop that focused on planning for the introduction of a H1N1 vaccine.

* Cayutaville Church, 4 Corners, Cayutaville Road and county Road 6, (607) 594-4827: Pastor Steve DeWalt will deliver the message at the 9 am Sunday service.

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.

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.

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.