Posted: 10:36 AM Starting this school year, public schools in Virginia are required to have concussion-management policies in place to help protect student-athletes.

Posted: 4:15 PM The Food and Drug Administration is planning to spend $600 million over five years to educate the public about the dangers of tobacco use.

Posted: 5:15 PM Officials say West Virginians turned in more than 3,600 pounds of unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs during a weekend drug take-back event.

Posted: 1:16 PM The March of Dimes has given Virginia a 'C' grade on its latest premature births report card.

Posted: 4:57 PM President Barack Obama is directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages, an escalating problem that has endangered patients and raised the possibility of price gouging.

Posted: 10:25 AM Drug Take-Back event set for Saturday in Virginia.

Posted: 4:55 PM Wegmans Food Markets has recalled 5,000 pounds of pine nuts sold in the bulk foods department of its stores in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Virginia, and Maryland after salmonella sickened 42 people.

Posted: 12:39 PM The state's 29,000 licensed registered nurses have until Monday to renew their annual licenses.

Posted: 4:03 PM The General Assembly wants a jump on how to create a health-insurance exchange required under federal law.

Posted: 5:47 PM Two Huntington cancer centers have been awarded accreditation by a national breast health organization.

Posted: 3:12 PM Virginia regulators have approved United Prosperity Life's plan to acquire a Roanoke insurer that's been in receivership for more than two years.

Posted: 4:59 PM Taylor Farms Retail Inc. is voluntarily recalling 3,265 cases of various bagged salad blends that have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.

Posted: 5:20 PM October is breast cancer awareness month, but a new study is raising questions about mammograms.

Updated: 2:40 PM Several cases of the flu have already been recorded in the Valley this fall.

Updated: 7:55 AM The flu season has arrived, and that means flu shots are available, too.

Posted: 6:39 PM The non-medical use of Adderall is rising, especially among college students.

Posted: 6:01 PM Attendance at a Fayette County school is back to normal after concerns about viral meningitis prompted parents to keep their children out of class.

Posted: 2:52 PM A troubled long-term care plan in President Barack Obama's health overhaul has suffered another setback that may seal its fate.

Posted: 12:39 PM The West Virginia Department of Education has received more than $300,000 in grants to alleviate childhood obesity and promote physical activity among schoolchildren.

Updated: 6:27 AM One woman is determined to inspire others to get their annual mammogram, by giving back to the community.

Posted: 3:38 PM A new report says ineligible Medicaid recipients are costing Virginia millions of dollars.

Posted: 6:04 PM First lady Michelle Obama is trying to help set a world record for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

Updated: 7:08 AM In this week's What's Going Around, Dr. Greg Jesteadt at Harrisonburg Family Practice says his office has seen a couple cases of an illness with some unique characteristics.

Posted: 10:21 AM More than 350 people are in Richmond for a conference targeting childhood obesity.

Posted: 5:57 PM Federal health officials have raised the death toll to 18 in an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe.