HEALTH & FITNESS

News about health, fitness, exercise and healthy living in Alabama

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- If you think you've got the flu, you might want to distance yourself from your pets until you feel better. Full story »

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Community Healthcare Center, one of two Pensacola abortion clinics, is closed because of its failure to pay a $413,000 fine to the state for a licensing violation. Full story »

Recipes, advice and information for the type 2 diabetic. Full story »

Lake Guntersville State Park Superintendent Talmadge Butler said he wants to assure the public that steps are being taken to keep the lodge restaurant in compliance with state health standards.  Full story »

Alabama grown-ups are leaving the table without finishing their vegetables -- or their fruits, for that matter.  Full story »

A Huntsville group that supports health care reform is planning to "protest the protestors" this afternoon when the Huntsville Tea Party group gathers on Clinton Avenue to ask House members to vote against a health care reform bill.  Full story »

Tony Attwood, an author and autism expert, recently called Huntsville one of the country's five most active "hot spots" for Asperger's, a developmental disorder closely related to autism Full story »

The rally will begin at 4 p.m. on the sidewalks in front of Lot K on Clinton Avenue, across from the U.S. Post Office.  Full story »

JACKSON, Miss. -- Health officials say swine flu vaccine will be available Monday at all Mississippi's county health clinics and in some schools. Full story »

While Dr. Regina Benjamin, founder of a Bayou la Batre health clinic, will take her new job as the congressional debate over a heath care overhaul nears a head, it's unclear whether the administration will have her take a policy role. Full story »

In a new strategy to combat deaths from the bacteria Vibrio vulnificus, which is especially dangerous to people with weakened immune systems, a top FDA adviser recently announced that the agency will require post-production processing of raw Gulf oysters during warm weather months starting in 2011. The bacteria typically kills 15 people per year. Full story »

Is there some secret to avoiding male chafing? Full story »

HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Sandy Labaree loved corvettes. She and her husband, Ben, spent much of their spare time traveling to corvette shows throughout the United States until her death from cancer in 2000.  Full story »

When her daughter was diagnosed with cancer, Tanisa Bradley asked God, "Why me?" She heard God answer, "Why not you?" Full story »

Instead of turning into her mother through mannerisms and facial expressions, Joyce Hampton turned into her mother by beating breast cancer at the age of 43. Full story »