An apparent consensus of the city council to stop putting fluoride in the city's water supply is something to smile about or not, depending on whom you ask. ...more

August 14, 2008

The first federal survey of both men and women on adoption issues challenges some stereotypes and offers some surprising findings: ...more

August 8, 2008

The average time that hospital emergency rooms patients wait to see a doctor has grown from about 38 minutes to almost an hour over the past decade, according to new federal statistics released Wednesday. ...more

August 6, 2008

On a sunny May afternoon, teenagers dismissed from a Beverly Hills middle school gathered outside a restaurant four blocks away and gossiped about their friends. ...more

August 4, 2008

The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported, acknowledging that their numbers have understated the level of the epidemic. ...more

August 3, 2008

Federal officials have been underestimating the number of new AIDS infections in the United States by 40 percent every year for more than a decade, researchers said Saturday. ...more

August 3, 2008

I'm still not quite over the movie "Jaws," which came out in 1975. I rarely go into the Gulf, and when I do, I sense that sharp teeth could slice through my leg at any moment. Somehow, it's hard to relax. ...more

August 2, 2008

A three-month-old salmonella outbreak initially linked to raw tomatoes has been traced to a jalapeno and serrano pepper farm in Mexico. ...more

July 31, 2008