CLEVELAND -- Chances are you may have noticed your healthcare costs have jumped. Nationwide, they're up an average of 10 percent.
Maybe you've noticed some label changes on products at the grocery store. But do you know what "gluten-free" means, and who needs these products?
CLEVELAND -- State health officials have agreed to ease their recommendation that health care workers wear snug-fitting respirator masks when dealing with swine flu.
Food dyes add no nutritional value or flavor to foods, but you will find them listed among ingredients in hundreds of store-bought products. Dyes are used to make foods look more appetizing.
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables sounds like the perfect prescription for good health. But for a growing number of people, the foods that are supposed to help keep them well are actually making them sick.
CLEVELAND -- Three health departments in Cuyahoga County have teamed up with United Way's 2-1-1 Call for Help to bring you daily updates on available flu shots.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Robert P. Casey (D-PA) introduced a bill Thursday to extend the "COBRA" subsidy which helps unemployed workers and their families afford temporary health care cover
WASHINGTON -- Majority Leader Steny Hoyer predicts the House will pass historic health care overhaul legislation Saturday to extend coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and ban insurance companies from turning people away.
WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is launching a program to try and prevent millions of accidental drug overdoses that occur each year due to medication errors, misuse and other problems.
It's not the Atkins or South Beach diet, but you will find eggs, dairy, and high fat meats like bacon on its "accepted eating" list.
WASHINGTON -- A senior House lawmaker is asking Congress to guarantee paid sick leave to workers if their employer asks them to stay home with swine flu or a similar contagious illness.
BAINBRIDGE -- We met Melissa Pantel-Ku four years ago, right after her breast cancer treatment.
ORVILLE -- There is an ironic benefit to war. So many veterans are surviving horrific explosions that it's prompted prosthetic companies to put new devices on the fast track.
WASHINGTON -- A leading government health figure says tests on millions of people who have received the H1N1 flu vaccine show that it's safe and effective.
WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials say pregnant women get good results from just a single dose of swine flu vaccine, but young children still need two treatments.
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COLUMBUS -- State officials say nearly 390,000 more doses of swine flu vaccine are on the way to replenishing local health departments and hospitals around Ohio.
COLUMBUS -- The Ohio Department of Health has requested an additional 398,500 doses of the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
ASHVILLE, N.Y. -- A New York meat company has recalled almost 546,000 pounds of ground beef because, according to health officials, contaminated meat has caused illness and one death.
WASHINGTON -- Liberal Democrats appear to be coalescing around the compromise health care bill that's set to go before the House this week.
