North County health officials say restrictive guidelines are barring needy residents from participating in a program that provides treatment to poor people with diabetes and high blood pressure.

Drug developer Schering-Plough Corp. said Wednesday it will sell 12 animal health care products to Pfizer Inc. and French animal health company Virbac.

Hardly anyone this side of a 1950s public service announcement would maintain that cigarettes are good for you, so it can be disconcerting to see people smoking outside a place devoted to health, a hospital.

A congressional field hearing on health issues involving female and rural veterans drew dozens of former service members to Sanford.

Author Ian Morrison will speak in Rochester about the future of health care this week.