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Bronx Clinics Urged To Test For AIDS
Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS. ...more
June 27, 2008
Town Finds Pregnancy Pact Inconceivable
The girls showed up repeatedly at the high school health clinic, asking for pregnancy tests. But their reactions to the test results were puzzling: high-fives if they were expecting, long faces if they weren't. ...more
June 21, 2008
Food Sellers, FDA Quick To Pull Tomatoes
It's the beginning of the summer, and it's tough to find fresh salsa for chips and tomatoes for burgers. ...more
June 12, 2008
Salmonella Outbreak Has Spread To 9 States
An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. ...more
June 4, 2008
Health Officials Urge Swimming Safety
With people flocking to community pools and beaches during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, health officials are urging swimmers to guard against coming down with illnesses. ...more
May 24, 2008
Canada Quarantines Train After 1 Dies, Others Fall Ill
Canadian authorities quarantined a train in northern Ontario on Friday after a woman died and several other people came down with an undetermined illness. ...more
May 10, 2008
Flu Cases Spike In February
Flu shots delivered in October are rolls of the dice, health officials say, and the losers are those who went under the needle then and are afflicted now. ...more
February 22, 2008
Achoo, Flu's Here For You
TAMPA Flu shots delivered in October are rolls of the dice, health officials say, and the losers are those who went under the needle then and are afflicted now. This month usually sees a spike in flu cases, but this year the flu hitting town seems to be taking its toll especially on children, even children who were vaccinated in the fall, officials said. ...more
February 21, 2008
Yeah, Flu Has Arrived, But Not Enough To Bug The Experts
Hillsborough County Health Department Director Doug Holt said he has noticed a rise in diagnoses of flu, with a variety of areas reporting cases. ...more
February 21, 2008
Festival Notes Successes, Challenges
Visitors to the Florida Strawberry Festival will notice some changes this year, from a large gate to get them into the grounds faster to a strictly enforced ban on eating and drinking in livestock tents. ...more
February 20, 2008
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