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President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.

Morticians who use formaldehyde to embalm bodies have a higher risk of leukemia, researchers reported on Friday.

HIV/AIDS program grants made by U.S.-based foundations totaled $618 billion in 2008, an 11 percent increase from the previous year, according to a new report by Funders Concerned About AIDS, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports.

The Associated Press poll on health care, by Stanford University with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from Oct.

Eight years after a U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power in Afghanistan, the war-ravaged state is the most dangerous place in the world for a child to be born, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The Humane Society of the United States is offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information leading to the arrest in the suffocation of 3,800 pigs at a hog operation near Hull in northwest Iowa.

The condition of children around the world has improved in the past five years, with fewer deaths and more access to education, UNICEF said in New York.

The American Cancer Society wants Thursday, November 19th, to be the day for smokers to kick the habit.

A new study by the Meals on Wheels Association of America shows roughly 3 million seniors are at risk of being hungry.

Hillsborough County schools have won $100 million to overhaul how teachers are trained and evaluated, with the hopes of increasing high school graduation rates.

Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention.

Twenty years after the U.N. adopted a treaty guaranteeing children's rights, fewer youngsters are dying and more are going to school a ' but an estimated 1 billion still lack services essential to their survival and development, UNICEF said Thursday.

Most Americans want Congress to deal with malpractice lawsuits driving up the cost of medical care, says an Associated Press poll.

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

GULFPORT - The American Cancer Society marks the 34th Great American Smokeout on Thursday by encouraging smokers to use the date to make a plan to quit or plan in advance to quit smoking that day.

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Holly Hazard of the Humane Society of the United States talks about what the organization is doing to keep the wild horse population under control.

Critics of the Cuban regime say nothing has changed under the leadership of Raul Castro.

Hillsborough County school board members this afternoon unanimously voted to accept a $100-million education grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The National Urban League is teaming with a small-business financial specialist to offer loans to companies unable to get approved by banks.