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The mayor's target is to get 77% of the city vaccinated — but the city is facing a big racial disparity.

"The Way Home" celebrates the food of Kardea Brown's family and the cuisine of the Sea Islands of Charleston.

The Los Angeles fires impacted many musical artists, destroying instruments, record collections and hard drives of irreplaceable work.

One in 5 Medicare patients who leaves the hospital for a nursing home ends up back in the hospital. The federal government will soon use bonuses and penalties to try to lower readmissions.

Two trends are converging in large wildland states like Montana — more frequent and severe wildfires and rapid home development in wildfire prone areas. A…

"Hospital at home" allowed Medicare and Medicaid to pay for intense treatment of patients in their homes. It's set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts. A five-year extension is on the table.

Sleepwalking through his days, a widowed New York economics professor finds an unlikely friendship — and a way back toward happiness — with an immigrant who teaches him how to play the djembe drum.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon has told nonessential Mexican workers to stay home for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy. The move is an effort to stem the spread of the swine flu that has killed up to 176 people and sickened thousands.

Cartoonist Guy Delisle turns his attention from places like Myanmar and North Korea to the more domestic struggle of child rearing in his wry new book, A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting. Reviewer Glen Weldon says it's slighter than Delisle's travel books, but "brighter and funnier as well."

Some health systems are encouraging selected emergency room patients who are sick but stable and don't need intensive, round-the-clock care to opt for hospital-level care at home, instead.