There's been a lot of debate over the years which weight loss program works the best, the low-fat or the low-carb diet?

Holding the salt could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in our country.

More than half of parents worry about vaccine safety when it comes to their kids.

The Enterprise Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for their 38th Annual Community Health Fair.

LONDON (AP) - A new study suggests that people can do more to avoid a heart attack than eat right and exercise. They can also try to be happy.

Kidney dialysis is a life-saving procedure for patients whose kidneys don't function properly. For some...medical complications make it difficult to get the life-saving treatment they need.

It's a surgery that's so precise you have to see it to believe it.

Ninety-five-percent of stroke survivors struggle to move one or both of their arms after the attack.

A panel of experts is looking to a cheap, at-home test kit as a way to increase the number of people who get screened for the nation's No. 2 cancer killer.

New surgical techniques are helping patients recover faster from illness every day. Some of those procedures are offered here in Dothan.

Phi Theta at Enterprise State Community College is sponsoring a campus blood drive.

Thursday, students at Samson Elementary took part in one of Governor Riley's new Kids Check Health Fairs.

Alabama will get $1.5 million in federal funds to increase physical activity, improve nutrition, reduce obesity, and decrease smoking.

A preliminary study suggests a cheap, easy-to-find supplement could help young people with signs of mental illness from descending into schizophrenia.

Dubravko Pavlin, D.M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of orthodontics

First lady Michelle Obama is asking mayors to help reduce childhood obesity.

Todd Wood, M.D., general surgeon at Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital in Houston, Texas, explains how an implanted stimulator helps treat chronic nausea and vomiting in patients with a stomach condition that is often a complication of diabetes.

Mass. loss costs Obama, Dems 60th health care vote

Richard G. Boles, M.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, talks about a new test that can help diagnose mitochondrial disease early.

Joanne Kurtzberg, M.D., director of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Duke University Medical Center, talks about the future of treatment with umbilical cord blood.

An influential doctors panel says most children should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior treatment if they need to lose weight.

A Maryland hospital says hundreds of heart patients may have had unnecessary stents implanted in their arteries.

The Jackson County Health Department Announces H1N1 Vaccination Clinics

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that a "longevity gene" helps to slow age-related decline in brain function in older adults. Drugs that mimic the gene's effect are now under development, the researchers note, and could help protect against Alzheimer's disease.

Todd Herron, Ph.D., assistant research professor in the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, talks about his research involving gene therapy to treat damaged heart tissue.