NYC plans education effort on bedbugs
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Don't try to spray with regular roach killer. Do seek out professional help. Don't pick up couches off the street. Do make sure your new mattress is wrapped in plastic when it's delivered.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has dispatched staffers to southeast Kansas, in an attempt to locate the source of apparent bug bites that have plagued hundreds
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Health officials said the Brooklyn student had become infected with a virulent, drug-resistant strain of bacteria.
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New York City officials are grappling with several proposals to achieve the goal of delivering medicine to thousands of people within 48 hours of a terrorist attack.
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The city and state plan to make the Brooklyn Army Terminal a home for new bioscience ventures.
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Working around bats, bugs and dripping silver balloons, dancers overtake New York CityÂs public places.
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Incident has fueled criticism of a plan to build a state-of-the-art research lab to study some of the world's most lethal germs in Boston.
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By Pam Kowalik, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Feb.
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With HIV rates almost doubling among teenagers and young adults since 2000, the District will emphasize prevention and education in a three-year initiative involving community groups, the public schools and strategies geared to a video- and cyber-savvy generation, city leaders said yesterday.
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New data from the city's Health Department show an increase in H.I.V. infection rates among young men.
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Kenya is saving children's lives with a national program to distribute insecticide-treated bed nets to prevent malaria, a study showed on Thursday.
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Poor residents will be rewarded for good behavior &#151; like $300 for doing well on school tests, $150 for holding a job and $200 for visiting the doctor &#151; under an experimental anti-poverty program that city officials detailed Monday.
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A group called Brooklyn Woods seeks to provide a more promising path to people who are chronically unemployed.
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By Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep.
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Pyjamas and bed linen made with silver cloth are to be used in hospitals to help fight the MRSA superbug.
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New York City's health care system is not prepared for a major disaster such as a large-scale attack, hurricane or pandemic, health care and disaster planning experts said.
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Hospital patients are being asked to become hygiene inspectors under plans announced by a health board.