Public health officials in Council Bluffs have drawn the battle lines against whooping cough in the city\'s schools, starting an immunization effort to stop the contagion in its tracks.
If you are allergic to ragweed, you know the season hit long and hard this year. Allergists across the Midwest said that their appointments are climbing as well.
President Barack Obama\'s top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won\'t tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law.
From the first days of the recent recall of 550 million eggs from two Iowa farms, one issue about large-scale agriculture has been clear: When something goes wrong on a big farm, it\'s going to be a big problem.
Health giant Johnson & Johnson is donating about $200 million in cash and medicine to a sweeping United Nations program created to improve the health and lives of people in poor countries.
Federal health regulators are warning doctors that a class of injectable drugs used in MRI medical imaging scans can cause a rare and sometimes fatal condition in patients with kidney disease.
A federal appeals court on Thursday permitted federal funding of stem cell research to proceed temporarily until the court rules on the merits of the Obama administration\'s position in the case.