Researchers say that chicken crates being driven down the highway in an open truck aren’t just nasty, they’re also spewing bacteria.

November is diabetes awareness month and it’s estimated more than five million people in the U.S. are unaware that they have it.  Are you at risk?  23-million Americans have this disease and many more are at high risk of developing it.

How old are you? Are you sure that’s your “real” age? Doctors say that answer can depend, in large part, on your weight.

Ten years after the tobacco settlement, a national report ranks South Carolina as worst in the nation in what it spends to keep people from smoking.

The executive director of the South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center says the state is not doing enough to enroll kids in the program.

A national health care advocacy group says more than 12 percent of South Carolina children have no health insurance.

Bad news about money is taking its toll. A new survey finds Americans are feeling more stressed out and women are feeling it more than men. According to the American Psychological Association, some people are coping in ways guaranteed to hurt their health. 

The machine helps run a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control that can determine in just hours, instead of days, the specific strain of flu a patient has.

A conservative group has been given a $3 million federal grant to promote abstinence in South Carolina.

Nearly 20 percent of South Carolinians are uninsured, and for one the unhealthiest states in the nation, that’s not a good number.

South Carolina’s infant mortality rate dropped slightly in 2006, even though thousands more babies were born in the state.

Making dinner at home is just one of the ways Megan, a pre-med student at Florida Atlantic University, tries to cut costs in this struggling economy.

A newly released survey by the American Psychological Association shows the declining economy is causing stress levels to skyrocket.

A state official says safeguards are in place after a report showed that employees at a Goldsboro mental hospital used money from drug companies and foreign medical schools for overnight travel.

Cancer survivors and advocates today applauded members of the S.C. General Assembly for expanding the Best Chance Network, a program providing critical breast and cervical cancer screening for low-income, uninsured South Carolina women.