Posts in category Health

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A new study ranks Florida in the middle of the pack when it comes to the health of its seniors. The …

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) _ The University of Oregon is proposing to create its own health insurance plan for students. The Register-Guard reports (http://bit.ly/1Bj4nXh ) the …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ The Texas House has voted to partially consolidate the state’s health and human services bureaucracy, but stopped short of creating a …

SIBLEY, Iowa (AP) _ Iowa farmers who have been dealing for weeks with thousands of rotting dead chickens are frustrated by the government’s response to …

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ A state probe of a Tucson hospital has found several instances of emergency room patients, including an infant, waiting for hours. …

SEYMOUR, Ind. (AP) _ Two Indiana counties are offering free HIV testing in response to an outbreak that has infected at least 160 people with …

By STEVE LeBLANC BOSTON (AP) _ Hospitals, insurers, doctors, unions and pharmaceutical companies spent a record $19 million lobbying Beacon Hill lawmakers last year, a …

By CARLA K. JOHNSON AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) _ When retailers open state-approved medical marijuana shops in Illinois later this year, they will face …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ John Jay Hooker has worked for Robert F. Kennedy, run for Tennessee governor and now, while facing terminal cancer, hopes to …

By SALLY ASHER Enid News & Eagle ENID, Okla. (AP) _ The effects of the Vietnam War still are reaching Enid in 2015. During the …