WASHINGTON - Public health officials expressed concern Tuesday about possible chemical contamination of waters flooding New Orleans in Hurricane Katrina's wake, saying no one yet knows if industrial leaks occurred.

BOSTON - The federal government will install a new quarantine station at Logan International Airport to evaluate travelers who may pose a health threat to the region, officials said.

The landmark Sheraton San Marcos Resort and Country Club in Chandler, known to attract the rich and famous, has been shut down since Tuesday after the discovery of a potentially fatal bacteria that infected an elderly man.

WASHINGTON - The mysterious respiratory disease that has swept greyhound racetracks across the country and also afflicted pet dogs is a type of flu - an influenza strain that jumped from horses to dogs, researchers reported Monday.

An ounce of prevention is supposedly worth a pound of cure — but our medical system isn’t set up that way.

There are places in Arizona where dangerously overgrown stands of trees cannot be thinned because an endangered Mexican spotted owl may be nesting nearby.

Arizona’s health officials are tracking more cases of sexually transmitted diseases, in part because a federal grant.

Falling is one of the top causes of serious injury among those aged 65 and older. And for nearly 16,000 people in the U.S. in 2005, falls proved fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The children in Sue Vant Hof’s physical education class can repeat an important phrase by memory: "Every 26 minutes in Arizona, someone dies from a heart attack or stroke."

In retrospect, Jennifer Mankoff, now 37, believes she was infected with Lyme disease either during a trip to Ligonie, Pa., in 2005 or while hiking in Frick Park in Pittsburgh in the fall of 2006.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.

ATLANTA - More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year - the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday.

July marks the beginning of the high risk season for valley fever, a prevalent fungal infection in Arizona that can be hard to diagnose and treat, and the recent dust storm may have exposed many residents to its spores. 

July marks the beginning of the high risk season for valley fever, a prevalent fungal infection in Arizona that can be hard to diagnose and treat, and the recent dust storm may have exposed many residents to its spores. 

July marks the beginning of the high risk season for valley fever, a prevalent fungal infection in Arizona that can be hard to diagnose and treat, and last week’s dust storm may have exposed many residents to its spores.

October 16, 2004

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has taken control of the remaining 22.4 million available flu shots in the United States in an attempt to make sure only those who really need the shot get it.

There are places in Arizona where dangerously overgrown stands of trees cannot be thinned because an endangered Mexican spotted owl may be nesting nearby.

An estimated 150,000 people over age 65 will fall in Maricopa County this year, nearly 20,000 older Americans will die from fall-related injuries in 2011 and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the costs of falls will more than double within the next nine years, rising to more than $54.9 billion by the year 2020.

Jeffrey Trent may be more at home in a laboratory than a construction site. But that didn't prevent the world-renowned genome scientist from taking the controls of a huge earthmover Friday to break ground on a bioscience center that supporters hope will spur a powerful industry in the East Valley and throughout Arizona.

Jeremy Pomeroy is onto something that, years from now, we may all be thankful for.