Updated: 4:40 PM Researchers have zeroed in on a possible explanation for the biggest whooping cough outbreak in decades.

Posted: 6:46 AM One of New York City's most ambitious efforts to prod residents to live healthier appears poised to pass as a health panel takes up a plan to cut down sales of big-sized sodas and other sugary drinks.

Updated: 10:30 AM McDonald's says it will start posting calorie counts on menus in restaurants across the country next week, ahead of a new regulation that will require the information.

Posted: 7:12 AM A Senate committee is taking up legislation that expands access to fertility services for disabled military veterans.

Posted: 6:43 AM Top administrators from the University of Nebraska Medical Center are expected to brief the university's Board of Regents about the impact that the federal health care law would have on their facilities.

Posted: 6:14 AM People attending Husker Harvest Days this week will be able to get free screenings for several lung diseases.

Posted: 9:45 AM Seven scientists have won prestigious medical awards for their contributions to biomedicine, including the development of liver transplants.

Updated: 12:16 PM Meet the four women that the American Heart Association chose to undergo a complete mind, body and soul makeover.

Posted: 5:56 AM Some of the most advanced medical tools that exist are now being deployed to help America's new veterans and wounded troops.

Posted: 5:18 AM An Associated Press analysis finds that California parents who send their children to private schools are much more likely to not immunize their children than their public school counterparts.

Posted: 9:51 AM Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and other diet groups say they are supporting New York City's proposed crackdown on super sized, sugary drinks.

Updated: 4:30 PM A new study finds little evidence that organic food is much healthier than conventionally grown food.

Updated: 9:41 PM The swine influenza strain H1N1 made headlines in 2009, but while a new virus - H3N2v - is present in the United States, it's not spreading as quickly.

Posted: 4:27 PM Federal health officials say that West Nile virus cases are up 40 percent since last week and are on pace to rival the record years of 2002 and 2003.

Posted: 5:09 PM Douglas County health officials in Omaha say a man has died of West Nile virus, marking the county's first death from the mosquito-borne disease this year.

Posted: 7:03 AM The nation's most influential pediatricians group says the benefits of circumcision for infant boys outweigh the small risks.

Posted: 7:32 AM An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink.

Posted: 7:25 AM Last year a deadly superbug spread through the nation's leading research hospital, killing six patients before it could be stopped.

Posted: 6:50 AM Nebraska officials are seeking two members of the public and one skin-care specialist for a seat on the state board that oversees cosmetology, nail technology, body art and esthetics.

Updated: 12:22 PM 10/11's very own Bonney Bowman was chosen for the Go Red for Women Challenge along with four other Lincoln women.

Posted: 12:21 AM The Iowa Health Department is reporting that it has confirmed five cases of West Nile virus in the state and is investigating several more cases.

Updated: 5:05 AM Federal health officials say the current West Nile outbreak is one of the largest in the U.S., with four times the usual number of cases for this time of year.

Posted: 7:05 AM The Food and Drug Administration has identified a southern Indiana farm that produces cantaloupes linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak and says the operation has recalled its melons.

Updated: 8:58 PM So far there have been more than 1,100 cases reported through the middle of August. That's three times as many as usually seen at this point in the year.

Posted: 8:04 AM Fried food is a staple at fair grounds. This summer though, one group is pushing healthy eating.