Posts in category Health

By KIMBERLEE KRUESI BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Psychiatrists are few and far between in Idaho’s plentiful rural communities, where finding access to mental health services …

SALEM, Ore. (AP) _ A bill requiring businesses to give employees paid sick leave is now advancing in the Oregon Legislature. Democrats on a budget …

By GARY FINEOUT TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ Key Republicans on Tuesday asserted that the administration of Florida Gov. Rick Scott was playing politics in a …

By JUDY LIN and FENIT NIRAPPIL SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) _ California lawmakers on Tuesday tackled a wide range of bills to raise the smoking age, …

NEW YORK (AP) _ Police are investigating the death of a Maryland woman after she got a cosmetic procedure to enlarge her buttocks from an …

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Indiana is asking the public for ideas on how bird shows might go on despite a statewide bird show ban imposed in …

PITTSBURGH (AP) _ The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s lung transplant program has been put on probation by the United Network for Organ Sharing, a …

By EMERY P. DALESIO RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ North Carolina’s largest health insurer says it wants to raise rates by an average of almost 26 …

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) _ The State Board of Animal Health has lifted quarantines in Dickey and Lamoure counties that it put in place following confirmation …

KAPLAN, La. (AP) _ Lafayette General Health has added Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital to the list of Acadiana-area hospitals it is operating. The changeover came …