Posts in category Health

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Sixty-three percent of Kansas elementary students have 20 minutes or less for daily recess and only 41 percent of schools have policies …

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) _ An Iowa company has been selling potentially unsafe dietary supplements and falsely advertising them as treatments for diseases ranging from …

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) _ Blue-green algae has been spotted again on Lake Champlain. Vermont Public Radio reports (http://bit.ly/1dS8qUW ) that the Vermont Department of Health …

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) _ The city of Savannah is setting new heat limits for horse-drawn carriages to try and protect the animals from blistering summer …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Gov. Rick Scott is ordering an independent analysis of the state’s prison system and the development of two prisons to test …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ The Ohio Department of Health says rainy summer weather is contributing to an increase in mosquitoes, and officials urge residents to …

By DAVE GRAM MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) _ Rutland Mental Health Services, one of 12 regional nonprofits serving clients with mental health and other disabilities, is …

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON (AP) _ Hoping to put to rest one of the most difficult disputes over its health care law, the Obama administration …

CRYSTAL BEACH, Texas (AP) _ A utility that serves a strip of Texas along the Gulf of Mexico has advised consumers to boil their drinking …

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Officials say tourism is thriving on Panama City Beach. Records show bed tax revenues from people staying in motels, …