AUSTIN - The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is spreading the word about a new state law, which takes effect Sept. 1, that encourages couples to attend free marriage education classes before taking the plunge.

Gov. Deval Patrick Thursday signed An Act Relative to Children's Mental Health into law. The bill will strengthen the system that delivers care and services that directly benefit children with mental health needs and their families.

A group of public health units in North Dakota is planning to boost its efforts to educate the public about secondhand smoke. Details of the revamped campaign, called BreatheND, are to be announced Monday in Fargo and Bismarck by the health units` Public

ADELAIDE, Australia — A free-spirited summit aimed at soliciting innovative ideas to strengthen Australia's future concluded today with wide-ranging proposals, from developing a cure for blindness to a health agency funded by a junk food tax.

Culturally tailored health education appears to help improve some clinical outcomes in the short-term for minorities with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Reuters Health reports. The study not