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Actor Chris Rock attends the National Movie Awards 2010 at the Royal Festival Hall on May 26, 2010 in London, England.

A Randolph County girl who was banned from attending school after refusing to get state-mandated vaccinations will take part in her graduation ceremony.

From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

It's hard to put sunscreen on a baby. They wiggle and twist, and sunscreen ends up on their clothes and in their hair.

Department of Justice lawyers filed court papers Friday again asking a federal appeals court to delay lifting age restrictions and prescription requirements on an emergency contraceptive popularly known as the morning-after pill.

Democratic Sen. Ellen Corbett of Hayward says some of the vapors emitted by the e-cigarettes may pose health risks.

A New York City lawyer for two massage therapists who sued retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre over claims he sent racy text messages says the case has been settled.

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the investigation involves seven reports from patients who received steroid injections from Main Street Family Pharmacy, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tenn.

Home is where the heart is -- not to mention the dirt, dust, bacteria and mold. "Most people clean what they can see, but there's a lot more to cleaning a home than just wiping down your bureau," says Richard Symes of Clenz Philly , an eco-friendly home and commercial cleaning service in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

The Internal Revenue Service is an important cog in the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, commonly shorthanded as Obamacare.

"You look at it side-to-side with 'meth mouth' or 'coke mouth,' it is startling to see the intensity and extent of damage more or less the same," said Dr.

Health officials investigating a cluster of mysterious illnesses in Alabama closed their investigation Thursday after determining the illnesses were unrelated and no new bacteria or viruses were involved.

An 11-year study of the incidence of brain cancer at jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney in the state ended Thursday with university researchers saying they found no statistically significant elevations in the rate of cancer among workers.

The story of Zach Sobiech, an 18-year-old who succumbed to a rare form of bone cancer on Monday, is touching hearts and changing the way people look at their time on Earth.

The state's largest health insurers, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield and Kaiser Permanente, will be among 13 plans competing to provide coverage to millions of Californians through the state's new health exchange, officials announced Thursday.

GENEVA>> World Health Organization officials said today that their probe into the deadly new coronavirus that has now claimed 22 lives is being delayed because of a dispute over the ownership rights to a sample.

The Backstreet Boys singer will release a memoir, "Facing the Music and Living to Talk About It," on Sept.

Just like clockwork, the Memorial Day weekend and the official start of summer with local gas prices.

The new fund, called the AARP Foundation Oklahoma Tornado Relief Fund, will match contributions dollar-for-dollar up to $250,000. That means that as much as $500,000 in aid will be on hand once the match is met through contributions.

Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped develop the $4 billion a year pneumonia and meningitis vaccine Prevnar 13 for Pfizer.