GRAND FORKS (AP) - The state Health Department has approved a permit for a new Grand Forks landfill in Rye Township, about four miles northwest of the city.

In response to high rates of sexually-transmitted diseases and consistently high numbers of births to teenagers, the Sangamon County Department of Public Health this month completed a model sex-education curriculum — including information about abstinence and contraceptives — and began offering the materials to area school districts for free. CHECK OUT THE MATERIALS: Presentations on STDs and ...

Margaret Haywood, the whistleblower nurse who filmed the neglect of elderly patients for a BBC Panorama documentary, has been praised by the family of one such patient Margaret Haywood, 58, received a lifetime ban from nursing for misconduct after filming the neglect of elderly patients for a BBC Panorama documentary.

The health care safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot.

SEATTLE -- If the U.S. wants real health care reform, it needs to make everyone is covered. The way to pay for that coverage? Limiting the tax-exempt status of health insurance premiums, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said yesterday at the annual meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists. [More]