It may not be the coughing, sneezing passenger next to you on your next flight who is spreading disease, it could be the airport you just took off from.

New research has some attendees at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. hopeful for a cure.

Nevada, MO is embarking on an initiative to improve the health of its citizens and the quality of health care they receive.

Federal prosecutors in New Hampshire announced charges Thursday against David Kwiatkowski. He allegedly infected patients with hepatits C while working at a hospital there. He previously worked at Hays Medical Ctr.

A special team is ready at a moment's notice to get newborns with medical conditions to the higher-level NICU at Topeka's Stormont-Vail.

33-year-old David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter Hospital, has been charged with fraudulently obtaining drugs and tampering with a consumer product.

To date, 18,000 cases of whooping cough have been reported to the CDC in 2012, more than twice as many as the same time last year. Nine infants have already died.

With food allergies still on the rise and no clear answer about their causes, parents of allergic children anxiously await the development of an effective treatment to prevent life-threatening reactions.

Current whooping cough rates in the U.S. are at the highest they've been in five years and are on the way to being the worst rates in five decades, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said to reporters on Thursday.

Only one in 500 Americans is a black gay or bisexual male, but black men who have sex with men (MSM) account for one in four new HIV infections in the United States, according to a new report by the Black AIDS Institute (BAI).

Research, presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference 2012 may point to another risk factor adults might want to avoid to help stave off Alzheimer's.

Inactivity is tied to 5.3 million deaths worldwide, similar to smoking, according to new research.

The FDA said in an announcement Monday night that Vivus Inc.'s Qsymia is approved for overweight and obese people who have at least one weight-related health problem such as high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes or high cholesterol.

Physical inactivity causes 1 in 10 deaths worldwide, according to a series of studies released in British medical journal The Lancet, putting it on par with the dangers of smoking and obesity. The results also suggest that public health officials treat this situation as a pandemic.

With a litany of stubbed toes, sprained ankles, broken bones and blistered feet, Americans' feet are hurting.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new prescription diet drug called Qsymia on Tuesday. The medication produced dramatic weight loss in clinical trials, but some are concerned over potential side effects, including increased heart rate, birth defects and other issues.

According to the Lawrence Journal World, the hospital was ranked number one hospital in the state of Kansas, and mentioned in U.S. News and World Report's best hospital rankings.

Doctors say that four patients who received the highest dose of Gammagard in early testing showed no decline on memory and cognition tests three years later.

The FDA has officially banned a controversial substance from baby bottles and sippy cups.

More than 3,500 ask Gov. Brownback to put people over politics, and to begin Healthcare Exchange Implementation immediately.

The controversial chemical BPA, or bisphenol-A, can no longer be used in manufacturing baby bottles or sippy cups, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday.

Researchers found that women with the highest concentrations of two types of phthalates - mono-benzyl phthalate and mono-isobutyl phthalate - were nearly two times more likely to have diabetes.

Gilead Sciences' Truvada has been taken by people over 12 with human immunodeficiency virus in conjunction with other antiretroviral drugs since it was first approved by the FDA in 2004.

Safe Kids Kansas offers lawn safety tips during this hot summer, and into the fall season.

A new study of young children finds that with each hour of television watched, their waistlines grow larger and their muscular fitness gets weaker.