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In this undated photo provided by Susan G. Komen for the Cure, new President and CEO Judith A. Salerno, left, is shown with Komen Founder and now Chair of Global Strategy Nancy G. Brinker.

If any of my neighbors had seen me ironing my daughter's mattress while wearing a blue shower cap, they undoubtedly would have thought I was nuts.

While meningitis has reached an all-time low in the United States, an op-ed in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine highlights cases of a deadly meningitis strain among men who have sex with men.

GMHC Board Members Dr. Demetre Daskalakis and Dr. Frank Spinelli give meningitis vaccinations across the city "Diseases do not discriminate," resident HIV expert Dr. Demetre Daskalakis said in a recent interview with EDGE.

The inquest on Wednesday heard that Ms Arci had been plagued by illnesses during her life, including Crohn's disease.

Eventually he was diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy, and was told he would need a heart transplant to survive.

By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.

Erin Brady of South Glastonbury, Conn., won the beauty pageant at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino after strutting in a white sparkly gown and answering a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding widespread DNA tests.

Women with a heightened risk of breast cancer could benefit from being screened for the disease at a younger age, research suggests.

Worcestershire County Council 's public health consultant announced earlier this week that the tablet form of the vaccine has recently become "unavailable".

The heart transplant recipient says he now wakes up each morning "with a smile on my face, thankful for the gift of another day I never expected to see."

Another rabid bat in northern Idaho has turned up, this time after one was caught by a Coeur d'Alene family's pet dog.

The Legislature passed a major piece of the federal Affordable Care Act on Saturday, opting to expand Medicaid to 1.4 million low-income Californians, as it rushed to meet its deadline to complete a state budget for the coming fiscal year.

Mounting scandals at the Internal Revenue Service are jeopardizing critical funding for the agency as it gears up to play a big role in President Barack Obama's health care law.

An autopsy report says the son of famed professional wrestler Ric Flair died from a toxic combination of heroin and prescription drugs The body of 25-year-old Reid Fliehr was found March 29 in a Charlotte hotel room with drug paraphernalia.

Patients are willing to see a nurse practitioner or physician assistant for timely care, according to a new study.

Though the nuisance condition, which causes leg spasms when fatigued, has kept the sandman at bay, new research in the journal Neurology by Xiang Gao, a research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, shows that men with the condition faced a 40% higher risk of dying earlier than other men in the study.

Inhaling motor vehicle emissions may transform good, protective cholesterol into bad, artery-clogging cholesterol that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke, says a new study by researchers at the University of Washington and the University of California-Los Angeles.

On June 22, twenty-six years after the founding of AIDS activist group ACT UP, current and former members will come together to celebrate achievements, remember lost friends and plan the future.

Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is working to spin her hard-fought victory over legislative conservatives who opposed her Medicaid expansion plan.