The number of people without health insurance fell by more than 1 million in 2007, the first annual decline since the Bush administration took office, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday. Incomes edged up for the middle class while poverty held steady.
Thousands of people with a devastating eye disease could have their sight saved by a drug being made available on the NHS, after a U-turn by the NHS watchdog, Nice.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers are contracting HIV at three times the national rate, the city health department said on Wednesday, attributing the difference to New York's large population of high-risk groups such as gay men and blacks.
All monitored beaches in Rhode Island are now open for swimming. The state health department on Wednesday recommended reopening Camp Grosvenor Beach in North Kingstown and Gorton Pond Beach in Warwick.
