Posted: 5:39 PM A study of day care workers in Wisconsin found a tendency to send kids home who aren't that sick.

Updated: 9:44 AM HHS Secretary looks back on year of swine flu

Posted: 6:14 PM Health officials say Americans suffered a bit less food poisoning last year.

Posted: 6:10 PM The nation's top two cigarette companies say they have made their payments as part of an agreement in which some cigarette makers are paying the states for smoking-related health care costs.

Posted: 4:33 PM The lower house of Mexico's Congress has approved a law that would require daily exercise for school children to combat rapidly growing obesity rates. Schools currently have only one day of physical education a week.

Posted: 4:32 PM A New York man who was convicted of knowingly infecting at least 13 women with the AIDS virus has completed his prison sentence, but he may face civil confinement as a sex offender.

Posted: 4:29 PM General Mills Inc. says it will cut the amount of sodium by 20 percent in a number of its cereals, soups, snacks and other products by 2015.

Updated: 3:16 PM Study: Malpractice worries help drive health costs

Posted: 5:34 PM National Infant Immunization Week is April 24 – May 1, 2010

Posted: 4:08 PM More than 1.5 million dollar grant awarded for 4-year campaign

Updated: 3:24 PM NM city calls body donation offices a 'biohazard'

Posted: 7:44 AM Alaska officials have drafted the state's first rules for commercial cheese making amid concerns about the growing number of dairy goat farms.

Posted: 7:29 AM Health officials say one student from Edison State College in Lee County has tuberculosis.

Posted: 7:27 AM Pollen: It's on your car, in the air and especially in your sinuses.

Posted: 3:55 AM Mind reading may no longer be the domain of psychics and fortune tellers - now some computers can do it, too.

Updated: 11:46 AM Children have been wading, splashing and playing in the area surrounding the fountains at Savannah's Forsyth Park, and city officials are trying to keep them out.

Updated: 5:54 PM The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on fat-melting injections used in spas across the U.S., saying the drugs have not been proven safe or effective.

Posted: 5:46 PM A new study suggests a risky type of back surgery is on the rise in older patients - and many of the surgeries are unnecessary. The study in Medicare patients also finds the riskiest procedures are driving up costs.

Posted: 5:41 PM A new study suggests that women can lower their stroke risk by going for a walk.

Posted: 4:49 PM A new government study confirms that U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession. The one exception to the trend was the birth rate among women in their 40s. Experts say these women probably felt they didn't have the luxury of waiting for better economic times.

Posted: 7:09 AM 1 hour daily exercise can combat gene variant, study found

Posted: 4:01 AM A startling analysis says low U.S. breast-feeding rates are linked with hundreds of infant deaths and billions of dollars in medical costs each year.

Posted: 4:44 PM Nevada state medical officials have filed a formal complaint against Michael Jackson's doctor, saying he twice failed to mention delinquent child support payments on applications to renew his medical license.

Posted: 4:40 PM A proposal to create medical marijuana dispensaries in Hawaii has gone up in smoke.

Posted: 4:38 PM Only a fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied for them in the two years since Congress ordered the Pentagon to review disputed disability claims.