Posts in category Health

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ A proposal to change the state’s tax laws that began as an effort to accommodate gym company Planet Fitness is heading …

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) _ Virginia’s environmental agency is investigating the cause of cloudy water in Bryan Park in North Richmond. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/1FCLZJC …

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) _ South Dakota State Epidemiologist Lon Kightlinger is cautioning residents to start protecting themselves against mosquitoes, after West Nile virus was found …

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) _ A Pakistani health official says the devastating heat wave that struck the country last weekend is slowly subsiding but that the …

By KELLI KENNEDY FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott is withdrawing his injunction against the Obama administration over federal health money, but there’s no …

“Doctor Bland, we have an emergency!”  Words I hear all too often. I drop what I am doing and proceed to the treatment area. As …

WEST PALM BEACH, FL — In observance of National HIV/AIDS Testing Day, the Urban League of Palm Beach County will host an HIV awareness event …

By PAUL J. WEBER AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards says her organization has no immediate plans to build more abortion clinics …

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ NASCAR issued a statement Tuesday backing South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse …

By JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) _ Slim one-room gyms are in, and the low cost of starting them is turning gym …