New study suggests pets might help kids stay healthy.

Pets may actually improve a child's health.

Health officials say a surgical patient tracking system improved patient care.

Thousands of children across the country suffer from childhood cancer.

New technology is helping surgical patients get through their operations in a faster, more efficient way.

A new study released yesterday shows Vitamin D can help lower the risk of bone fracture, but in order for the vitamin to be effective you have to take a very high dose.

Three additional samples were taken on July 3rd, one each at the Little Choctawhatchee River at Hwy 123 (an entry point for paddlers), at the boat ramp just below Hwy 92 near Clayhatchee and at Hurricane Creek not far upstream from its mouth at John Hutto Park in Newton.

Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper, Inc. has just completed a round of bacteria testing at 14 sites across the Choctawhatchee River watershed.

Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a highly contagious and sometimes fatal bacterial disease which has increased alarmingly in the past decade.

Despite the Supreme Court's ruling upholding the federal health care reform law, Florida Governor Rick Scott says he won't be implementing it, at least for now. He's holding out hope the law will be repealed before January 2014. That's when states will be legally bound to follow it. It's a hope that almost completely depends on a republican victory in November.

New cancer research study shows coffee may lower skin cancer risk.

Students and teachers at Auburn University may have been exposed to Tuberculosis

Dr. Michael Ramsey has been practicing medicine for fifteen years and says seeing little patients is his passion.

National HIV testing day serves as reminder to Americans to get tested.

FDA approves new diet pill.

Would you go to a drugstore to get tested for AIDS?

Camp Sugar Falls helps kids learn how to manage diabetes.

Study finds many Americans with addictions are not being treated.

A new study suggests the global H1N1 death toll may be 15 times higher than previously reported.

Some people who get weight-loss surgery may have a higher risk of alcohol abuse.

Research suggests Americans want antibiotic-free meat.

President Obama's key Catholic ally to a health plan requiring insurers provide free contraceptive coverage is no longer backing the measure.

FDA report finds American children take fewer antibiotics and more ADHD medicine.

Catholic association no longer backing Obama administration's contraceptive plan.

British medical experts say faulty French-made breast implants do not pose any long-term health problems to women even if they rupture.