Population

Part of the public-health mantra for dealing with the H1N1 flu pandemic is the recommendation that patients remain isolated while the illness runs its course. Experts have estimated that is about seven days. Others recommend that people remain isolated...

Jimmy Carter, a black Harvard professor and race relations were among the topics reporters raised with White House spokesman Robert Gibbs this week....

Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau demonstrates the effect of the recession on driving habits. Although this data only covers the early months of the economic downturn, it???s clear which way the trends were headed. Commuting habits began....

According to U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, the grizzly bear's Yellowstone population is not quite as recovered as Bush administration officials thought when they stripped the animals of their Endangered Species Act protections in 2007. In a ruling...

More than three decades of rapid growth in the country's foreign-born population came to a halt last year, census data show, as surging unemployment made the U.S. economy less attractive to outsiders, report The Times' Don Lee and Alana Semuels. In...

The nation's leading group of general internal medicine physicians has taken the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to task over drug safety and urged the agency to adopt a raft of new consumer safeguards for prescription drugs. The American College......

by Mark Silva Here's some fodder for critics who worry that illegal immigrants stand to benefit from the health-care overhaul that President Obama is attempting to push through Congress: One in three Mexicans say they would come to the United......

After the coffee. Before letting it sink in that Bruce Springsteen is 60 today. Working with government. The Telemundo network's telenovela 'Mas Sable el Diablo' ('The Devil Knows Best') will introduce a character who works for the Census Bureau as......

Young adults are the least likely among all age groups to get outpatient medical care even though there is plenty of evidence that seeing a doctor once a year or so would benefit people ages 20 to 29 just as......

National Hunting and Fishing Day is Saturday and I'll celebrate by stalking trout on the shores of some Eastern Sierra creek. I can't wait. In the extended-entry field below is President Obama's official proclamation. The first such proclamation was made....

While the number of cars on the roads in the U.S. has only increased by 7% in the last five years, the number of cars hitting deer has leapt 18.3% in the same period, according to claims data from State......

Pregnant women, here's another reason to consider getting vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus: Historical data show that men who were exposed to flu in the womb during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic were 23% more likely than the......