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Child welfare officials say the number of Florida middle and high school students experimenting with marijuana, alcohol and prescription drugs has dropped.

Alcohol has been involved in most of the deaths blamed on the extreme cold in Ukraine, the country worst affected by the icy temperatures gripping Eastern Europe, a government minister said Wednesday.

The Obama administration is attempting to reach a compromise in the new birth control law that will require employers to cover it under their health care plans.

In a very small group of patients, sending electrical impulses to a memory-center in the brain -- via tiny implanted electrodes -- may have improved their memory.

But the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party in Guerrero state also says that blame goes to the candidate who held the event.

In this undated photo provided by the Oregon Research Institute, people participate in a tai chi class at the institute in Eugene, Ore.

More than half admitted describing someone's prognosis in a way they knew was too rosy.

CVS Caremark Corp.'s fourth-quarter earnings climbed nearly 4 percent as the drugstore operator's pharmacy services revenue swelled because of a long-term contract and new business.

A Pennsylvania woman who submitted nearly $100,000 worth of fake cancer treatment insurance claims for herself and her husband must repay the money while she serves nearly nine years on probation.

It is essential that all exercises you engage in be "correct to form." Exercises performed incorrectly can result in strained muscles and tendons, stress on the knees and other joints, and hernias from improper handling of weights.

The battle over a new White House policy compelling Catholic institutions to cover contraception in health insurance plans continued to escalate Tuesday, with the Catholic Church threatening to sue, liberal groups spotlighting Catholic support for contraception, and the Obama administration vowing to confront religious concerns.

Each year, millions of children receive immunization shots in order to prepare for school, whether it's preschool, kindergarten, first grade, high school or college.

The prospects for an extension of President Barack Obama's signature payroll tax cut, once considered a slam dunk on Capitol Hill, now seem far less certain as House-Senate talks have deadlocked over finding ways to pay for it.

A high-ranking official resigned Tuesday from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer charity after a dispute over whether the group should give funding to Planned Parenthood, according to a letter obtained by The Associated Press.

A federal appeals court says American seniors who receive Social Security cannot reject their legal right to Medicare benefits in a rare case of someone suing to get out of a government entitlement.

More than one in three Americans lived in households that received Medicaid, food stamps or other means-based government assistance, according to a new report.

The Obama administration wants to spend just over half a billion dollars on Alzheimer's research next year, hoping to battle back against what could become the defining disease of the aging baby-boom generation.

Federal health officials say California cannot force Medi-Cal recipients to make a co-pay for doctor visits and prescription drugs, a decision that brings relief to low-income patients but complicates the state's effort to close a $9.2 billion budget deficit.

Dementia can sneak up on families because its sufferers are pretty adept at covering lapses early on.

Although fewer kids are being exposed to smoking while riding in cars, more than 20 percent of nonsmoking teens still are, U.S. health officials report.