WHO and its partners urgently need US$ 4.2 million to provide health care for many of the 800,000 people - including children and pregnant women - affected by successive tropical storms in Haiti.

HMOs, Medicaid, CHIP » Utah's private health maintenance organizations (HMOs) do a good job treating children with asthma, but need to do better in providing breast cancer screenings, according to a new state report.

As flu season  fast approaches, U.S. health officials are urging all children between the ages of six months and 18 years of age to get flu shots. The recommendation expands the previously targeted population (infants, people 50 and over, those with chro

TennCare will soon limit home health services and the private duty nursing benefit to technology dependent adults. The limit does not affect children, but it could force hundreds of people into nursing homes.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - Democratic state Sen. Kay Hagan began her campaign for U.S. Senate by scolding incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole for voting against the expansion of a children's health program.