A day of fun and health for parents and children is planned at Lakeview Regional Medical Center July 19 from 9 a.m. until noon on the hospital grounds 95 E. Fairway Drive, Covington.

WASHINGTON - About 10,000 New Jersey children from middle-income families will continue to receive federally subsidized health care now that the Bush administration has dropped plans to restrict access to a federal-state insurance program.

WARE - A number of community-based organizations will stage a child health and safety fair on Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ware Center Meeting House on Route 9.

ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) -- The number of measles cases in the U.S. is at its highest level since 1997, and nearly half of those involve children whose parents rejected vaccination, said government health officials. Beth Galvin reports.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Monday at the Miami Children's Hospital promoted his health care proposal, which he said would "put families in charge," USA Today reports (Jackson, USA Today, 4/29).