Posts in category Health

By MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) _ Attention wearers of skinny jeans: don’t squat _ at least not for long. Doctors in Australia …

EAST PORTERVILLE, Calif. (AP) _ Residents of East Porterville and experts say not having running water and breathing increasingly dusty air because of the drought …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The number of veterans seeking health care but ending up on waiting lists of one month or more is 50 percent higher …

PETAL, Miss. (AP) _ The Petal Board of Aldermen has voted to make vaping illegal in public buildings. The Hattiesburg American (http://hatne.ws/1SAWu9M) reports that Mayor …

By GARY FINEOUT A bruising budget battle that divided Republicans in the Florida Legislature is over for now, but the truce is likely only to …

By DAVID BRUCE Erie Times-News ERIE, Pa. (AP) _ LeRoy Burton felt a lot older than 67 when he walked into Joe Orengia’s gym 13 …

HOUSTON (AP) _ For the first time in a decade, Texas health officials are considering a deeper investigation of cancer clusters after determining that findings …

PHOENIX (AP) _ With the return of monsoon season comes a potentially deadly danger for dogs. KPNX-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1TEfXrq ) that the Sonoran Desert toad …

By RYAN VAN VELZER PHOENIX (AP) _ An Arizona family won a $435,000 judgment in federal court after a child swallowed a decorative bead coated …

DOVER, Del. (AP) _ Public health and law enforcement officials say Delaware is seeing an increasing number of fatal overdoses from fentanyl, a synthetic painkiller. …