The Center for Disease Control has indicated that, for the first time in 30 years, only one in five American women are smoking.

The report yielded positive results showing that in 2003, 21.6% of U.S. adults smoked, a drop from the 22.5% recorded in 2002. The CDC also found that 2003 had the lowest proportion of smokers, aged 18 to 24 (23.9%), since 1991

The United States still has no licensed vaccine to prevent avian flu and has nowhere near enough drugs to treat the sick if there is an epidemic, experts told Congress on Thursday.

Hospitals have too little capacity to deal with the huge numbers of people who would become sick and the U.S. Health and Human Services Department does not have a plan for dealing with an epidemic, the experts said

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter

A Rhode Island woman is thought to have caught the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) from her hamster shortly before her unrelated death last month

Public elementary and middle schools would be prohibited from selling soda and junk food under a package of measures approved Monday by a state Senate panel action against a growing epidemic of childhood obesity.

The bills aim to restrict the amount of sugar, fat and salt children consume, at least during the school day

Three transplant patients died in mid-April, weeks after undergoing the procedures. One a double lung recipient, the other a liver recipient, and the third a kidney transplant patient.

A fourth patient, who also received a kidney transplant, became ill but is now recovering