Western Garfield County residents may have had health problems caused by the natural-gas industry, but a two-year study found no difference in the overall health of the population than similar counties on the West Slope, according to one of the study’s

Chronic conditions are projected to be the leading cause of disability throughout the world by the year 2020; if not successfully prevented and managed, they will become the most expensive problems faced by our health care system.

A faster and less expensive way for scientists to find which genes might affect human health has been developed. Using barcodes, not unlike what shoppers find in grocery stores, researchers found a way to index portions of the nearly 3-billion-base human

Health officials are again warning Vermonters not to eat undercooked meat after a ninth person was confirmed to be ill with E. coli 0157:H7 infection, and a 10th suspected case has been reported. To date, eight of the confirmed cases - including a child w

A study conducted in an urban slum setting in Salvador, Brazil has found that open sewers, accumulations of refuse, and inadequate floodwater drainage are acting as sources for transmission of the disease leptospirosis. The study is published in this week