Hundreds of students at the University of Southern Maine have been barred from its campuses over mumps vaccinations.

  The New Jersey Public Health Council is expected to vote Monday on a rule that would require flu vaccines for any child entering day care or preschool.

  A child may be the first in the family to be evaluated.

  Can self-awareness do as much good for a woman?s waistline as the elliptical trainer?

  A study says that at least 46,600 children along the Gulf Coast are still struggling with mental health problems and other serious aftereffects of hurricanes in 2005.

  New Medicare rules for a small but promising class of cancer drugs may cause thousands of lymphoma patients to lose access to the treatment.

  Sticky notes, mnemonics and other tips for the forgetful.

  Heather Kuzmich is not ?America?s Next Top Model,?but she is a model for others with Asperger?s syndrome.

  Super Glue is credited with saving lives in emergency situations, but should you keep some in the medicine cabinet?

  Even as the beef industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to keep harmful pathogens out of the meat it sells to the public, it appears to be losing ground.

  The teenage birth rate in the United States rose 3 percent in 2006, the first increase since 1991, fueling a debate about whether the Bush administration?s abstinence-only sexual education efforts are working.

  A federal advisory committee voted Wednesday that Genentech?s drug Avastin should not be approved as a treatment for breast cancer.