The House this week passed a bill that bars the use of federal funds by states to ensure that girls are vaccinated against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), before they can be admitted to school.
A group of the nation's largest food and beverage companies yesterday pledged to use nutrition standards when advertising to children under the age of 12 to decrease the number of overweight youth.
A group of the nation's largest food and beverage companies yesterday pledged to use nutrition standards when advertising to children under the age of 12 to decrease the number of overweight youth.
The Senate will take up legislation tomorrow that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to make tobacco products less harmful to consumers.
The Senate will take up legislation tomorrow that would give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to make tobacco products less harmful to consumers.
DENVER (AP) — New tests show the globe-trotting American lawyer who caused an international health scare by traveling with a dangerous form of tuberculosis has a less severe form of the disease, doctors said yesterday.
REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Seven dog lovers who oppose the chaining of pets spent part of the weekend tethered to doghouses and poles as their canine friends frolicked in an off-leash area of a park.
With none of the hype that attended the Apple IPhone rollout, wireless provider T-Mobile quietly married a cell phone with Wi-Fi to create what might be one of the first "universal" phones.
Frightening, isn"t it, that hundreds of thousands of Americans are HIV positive and don't know it? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 180,000 to 280,000 people are totally unaware that they have HIV/AIDS.
