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The former manager in charge of the water supply when seven people died from E. coli poisoning in Walkerton, Ont., almost five years ago is set to be released after serving ...

An outbreak of E. coli bacteria in Florida that has caused kidney disease in several people has been definitively linked to animals from petting zoos at three fairs, state ...

Health-care workers weren't told how to protect themselves from SARS until 15 days after the same information was provided to doctors, a group of the province's nurses ...

Every kid is given a piggy bank to store loose coins and dollar bills for later use.

The prince of Hanover, the sometimes rowdy husband of Monacos Princess Caroline, is hospitalized in serious condition with an acute pancreas problem, the royal palace said ...

April 8, 2005 Restraining order California " IntraLase was granted a temporary restraining order barring Escalon Medical from backing out of a licensing agreement.

Pamphlets Teach 'How To's' of Drug Use Apr 7, 2005 12:45 pm US/Pacific They read like recipes -- recipes for addiction.

The new antipsychotic drug olanzapine prevents the loss of gray matter in the brains of schizophrenia patients, but the older drug haloperidol doesn't offer the same ...

The Oregon Bluegrass Association is sponsoring a benefit performance for the Carol Harley Leukemia Treatment Fund at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the John G.

Governor Rell is home after undergoing an outpatient procedure to complete surgery related to breast cancer.

By Kyle Gearhart Wausau Daily Herald kgearhar@wdhprint.com A simple blood test during a routine physical seven years ago saved Ron Zahrt's life.

"It's a sad day for me to have to report on the illness of one of our members, Council Member Maguire," Eagan Mayor Pat Geagan announced at Tuesday's City Council meeting.

Get weekly updates on what's new in sacbee.com's Women's section. Sign up here. When Karen Lorraine Speier was 12, she decided to take Jacqueline as her confirmation name.

The worst previous recorded Marburg outbreak killed 124 in the Congo between 1998 and 2000, the AP reported.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." This old expression couldn't be more truthful with today's rising health care costs.

When the news that Peter Jennings had lung cancer hit earlier this week, many WebMD users asked why doctors don't use chest X-rays to diagnose lung cancer at an early stage, ...

The outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Angola is worse than Ebola , a UN disease expert said, as the world body launched an urgent appeal for funds to fight the fever ...

For the second time in less than a year a prescription drug to treat arthritis has been pulled off the market.

Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel met with the new US ambassador to Japan. Hagel asked the new ambassador, J. Thomas Schieffer, to encourage Japan to life its ban on beef as soon ...

Barbara Beaudoin views her 27-year battle with multiple sclerosis as a vaudeville act.

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Wildwoods Chapter of Compassionate Friends meets the first Monday of each month, at the Associated Bank Drive-In Building, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Clara Stallings presents additional Project Lifesaver donations to Helen Jones. Cherokee County Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons has received ...

Gretchen Wilson's successes on the radio and stage are numerous. But before anyone ever knew who she was, she had her most important success-escaping a family pattern of ...

Flesh-eating bacteria sound awful. And they are. A San Jose man recently lost a foot and part of his leg to the rare bacteria.

A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal.

The leader of the Independent Democrats, Patricia de Lille, said on Friday that she had confidence that the South African legal system will prove her innocence in a civil ...

Haemophiliacs investigating the "bad blood scandal" of the 1990s have been stymied by a 30-year embargo placed on sensitive documents from Prime Minister Helen Clark's time ...

The family of a 5-year-old Bonita Springs Charter School student who was allegedly forced to clean a clogged toilet with rubber gloves in front of her classmates has filed a ...

The thunder of 1,200 little feet April 15 will be the sound of money being raised to find a cure for diabetes.

Antidepressants may do more than improve the mental health of people with both HIV and depression.

MDS is a malignant disorder of blood cell production that affects approximately 300,000 people worldwide.

Developing world urged to ditch plastic for traditional pitchers. Brass water containers could combat many water-borne diseases, according to microbiologists.

Mercury Fillings in Moms Don't Lead to Small Babies Risk of low birth weight infants debunked in new study.

Scientists gave an overview of autofluorescence spectroscopy and imaging as a diagnostic tool in oral cancer.

Young adults who were in foster care as children are much more likely to have mental health problems than others the same age, Harvard University researchers concluded from ...

A tomato packing house in Florida was the common link between three 2004 outbreaks of salmonella infection associated with eating Roma tomatoes, according to the current ...

Joey's Eagles will host a fund-raiser pasta dinner Sunday night in St. John's Church just south of Foxmoor Plaza on Route 209 in Marshall's Creek, from 4 to 8 p.m.