In hopes of providing alternatives to incarceration, Richmond Mayor Dwight C. Jones and other officials traveled here last week to tour a former Flav-O-Rich dairy where drug offenders are treated and put to work.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Third grader Sam Bish is a spunky and smart 8-year-old from Reynoldsburg who is fighting an adult disease.

Dr Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija says what she went through after losing two children made her understand the pain other women undergo. She counts as an achievement educating disadvantaged women on simple ways to ensure babies survive the first 28 days after

It is hard being someone with diabetes. One day, fatty fish like salmon are extolled for being a valuable healthy food that I should include in my diabetic diet in large portions. The next day ....

Junk food elicits addictive behavior in rats similar to the behaviors of rats addicted to heroin, a new study finds. "This is the most complete evidence to date that suggests obesity and drug addiction have common neurobiological underpinnings."

Do you know how many people are at the table with gloves on, when you have an operation? There's the surgeon and a scrub nurse, of course. A surgical tech may be there too, suctioning up those queasy fluids, holding the arm or leg we're working on....

H221 vaccines? Are they safe or not to have? It's getting pretty close to home for me with this death! Authorities say Staff Sgt. Shawn J. Rankin died Oct. 4 at his home in Glendale. Base officials say the 25-year-old Rankin was diagnosed w/swine flu.

As 1 of my 1st acts as President of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Advocacy Alliance, I had the honor of testifying before the House Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health in support of a number of key cancer priorities - cont'd...

New guidelines on protecting hospital workers against the H1N1 swine flu stress keeping influenza patients away from others; put protective equipment such as face masks last.vaccinate as many staff as possible against H1N1; U.S. Centers for Disease Cntrl.

Democrats opened difficult talks on healthcare reform in the U.S. Senate Wednesday, promising to bridge party divisions on a government-run insurance plan and paying for the overhaul.