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If things are a bit tense in your doctor's office come Oct. 1, some behind-the-scenes red tape could be to blame.

ELKHORN—A second bat in Walworth County has tested positive for rabies.

On Sept. 3, the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene confirmed a bat found in a Walworth County home had the viral disease, according to a Walworth County Department of...

A Janesville woman is facing felony charges after being accused of smuggling drugs to her boyfriend in the Rock County Jail.

State Rep. Debra Kolste, D-Janesville, has introduced legislation that would require hikes in health insurance premiums to be publicized, reviewed and explained.

Those who knew Jim “Stump” Haakinson say he was more than the smiling face on the label of Stump's Hot Olives, though he made the brand regionally famous.

A tiny, wireless pacemaker could offer some heart patients a surgery-free alternative to the traditional devices, a new study says. Some doctors, however, say there are lingering safety questions and warned patients not to rush to get the new technology.

Rafael Eleazar Cagsanon-Balam, 31, of Capron, Illinois, is charged in Walworth County Court with 11 felony counts related to a two-vehicle crash in the town of Sharon that injured six people.

Intimacy and sexual function are one of the least-discussed issues in cancer care, experts say, and it could have a significant impact on the survivors' quality of life after cancer.

Rates of kidney transplants among white patients used to far surpass those in blacks, but U.S. data on nearly 200,000 end-stage kidney disease patients shows that disparity had disappeared by 2010.

Patty Slatter will share her decades-long struggles of suicide attempts' story Saturday, Sept. 19, during the Suicide Awareness & Prevent Event in Janesville.