Health officials say a student at Appleton North High School has contracted tuberculosis, and the city plans to test about 300 students who may have been exposed.

The four Democrats have sent a letter urging Republican Gov. Scott Walker to lift the enrollment cap on the state's Family Care program that helps keep the elderly and disabled out of nursing homes.

If you're a smoker, the Center for Disease Control & Prevention says you're less likey to visit the dentist.

A new study suggests that junk food remains plentiful at the nation's elementary schools despite widespread efforts to fight childhood obesity.

Dementia can sneak up on families because its sufferers are pretty adept at covering lapses early on. It can take even longer to be noticed if spouses are there to compensate. And doctors can be fooled as well.

The Midwest Division of the American Cancer Society is offering a limited number of scholarships for young cancer survivors who are planning to attend a university, college, technical or vocational school in the fall of 2012.

We're in peak flu season and if you haven't gotten the flu shot yet, medical experts say it's not too late.

Feb. 3, 2012 is National Wear Red Day. The goal of the movement is to spread awareness about the seriousness of cardiac disease, especially among women. Health experts say most women don't realize, it's their number one killer. That's why the American Heart Association has made the entire month of February American Heart Month.

A Minnesota food company is widening its recall of hard-cooked eggs because of a potential for listeria contamination.

A judge has blocked a federal requirement that would have begun forcing U.S. tobacco companies to put large graphic images on their cigarette packages later this year to show the dangers of smoking.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its financial partnerships with numerous Planned Parenthood affiliates.

A new report by Wisconsin's nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau says the state's Medicaid programs face a $141 million budget shortfall by July 2013.

The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness, and broader hope for thousands more patients suffering from the inherited disease.

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About 100 hospitals are participating in a statewide initiative to reduce the number patients who get infections in the hospital, as well as the number of patients who need to be readmitted.

About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.

A book by a local author is shedding some light on dementia.

Gov. Scott Walker says he will turn down $37 million from the federal government that had been awarded to help implement health care exchanges under President Barack Obama's health care reform law.

A local pediatrician says both conditions are extremely harmful. Severe frostbite can lead to loss of limbs and hypothermia can lead to death.

The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025.

A Wisconsin woman who, along with her conjoined twin, made headlines 27 years ago when they were surgically separated, is making news again.

A Medford man is now the first U.S. civilian to be fitted for a bionic hand. In 2006, Matt Razink, 36, lost his left hand after doctors had to amputate his arm just below the elbow after it was caught in a piece of construction equipment.

Ashland County now has 10 cases of whooping cough. Cyndi Zach, the public health administrator for the county health and human services department, says the cases include nine students in the Ashland School District and one adult.

Coca-Cola Co. says it alerted the Food and Drug Administration after it found some Brazilian growers had sprayed their orange trees with a fungicide that is not approved for use in the U.S.

A growing number of parents in Wisconsin are choosing not to have their children immunized.