WASHINGTON-Imagine Superman promoting fresh fruits and vegetables instead of a cereal. Children are confronted with such a barrage of advertising…

WASHINGTON–More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hotline in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have…

WASHINGTON–Investing just $10 per person–roughly the price of a six-pack of beer and some chips–could greatly fuel community programs that…

The 1918 flu pandemic, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Midwestern floods last month that saturated downstate Illinois, Iowa and…

Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists…

Flooding, heavy rains and summer heat have produced a bumper crop of pesky mosquitoes, particularly in the waterlogged Midwest. Here’s…