New Mexico’s Secretary of Health, Alfredo Vigil, was in Portales on Thursday and Friday looking over the Department of Health offices and speaking with local health care workers.

Montgomery County health officials announced June 18 a county teen has been stricken with Salmonella Saintpaul, the strain of salmonella that is linked to the multi-state outbreak associated with tomatoes.

A Campbell River teen who has battled anorexia has authored a book in the hopes that it will help other young people make wise decisions when it comes to food and living a balanced life.

More than 40,000 secondary school students will have better access to health services due to an initiative launched today by Associate Health Minister Steve Chadwick.

Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.