Posts in category Health

TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) _ State safety regulators have fined the Manke Lumber Company in Tacoma for 25 serious and 11 general safety and health violations …

By MARK SCOLFORO HARRISBURG (AP) _ Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Friday that a lawsuit over the use of tobacco settlement money to balance the state …

HELENA, Mont. (AP) _ Health officials are joining a push for the Environmental Protection Agency to acknowledge East Helena meets air quality standards for sulfur …

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) _ About 40 children became ill while swimming at a city-run water park in Antioch after excessive chlorine apparently leaked into the …

By RANDALL CHASE DOVER, Del. (AP) _ Gov. Jack Markell signed legislation Thursday decriminalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana in Delaware. Markell signed the …

SALEM, Ore. (AP) _ A proposal permitting pharmacists to prescribe hormonal birth control is advancing through the Legislature. The bill allows women to skip their …

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) _ The number of heroin deaths continues to grow in the St. Louis region. KMOX Radio (http://cbsloc.al/1CfkA0g ) reports that 113 …

BANGKOK (AP) _ Thailand says it has confirmed its first known case of the deadly MERS virus, a man who arrived from a Middle Eastern …

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) _ Federal officials say studies reinforce advisement that people could use tap water shortly after a chemical spill in West Virginia last …

By TOM MURPHY AP Business Writer CVS drugstores that quit tobacco sales last year are now getting health and beauty makeovers to attract customers who …