Arizona testing for new strain of avian flu

In response to a new strain of influenza reported in China, the Arizona State Laboratory has obtained H7N9 influenza test kits from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Blog: State contemplates action on vaccine exemptions

State health director Will Humble is asking his staff to study new data on declining vaccination rates and to provide him with "intervention recommendations." "More AZ parents are choosing not to vaccinate their kids- and using “personal exemptions” when they enroll their kids in school," H…

Some legal pot dispensaries may not have product at first

PHOENIX - State Health Director Will Humble said Thursday that he will license new dispensaries even if their owners have nothing ready to sell.

Limits to legal grow-your-own marijuana coming to Phoenix, Tucson

PHOENIX — A clock is now ticking to end the legal right of medical marijuana cardholders in the Phoenix area to grow their own.

AZ health chief decries kids' 'co-sleeping' deaths

PHOENIX - The state's top health official said Wednesday there's a simple, cost-free way to prevent dozens of children from dying each year: Let them sleep alone.

AZ reports 25 percent rise in '11 abortions

PHOENIX - A new report shows a sharp increase in the number of Arizona women having abortions last year.

Blog: Breastfeeding and cannabis

Arizona Department of Health Services director Will Humble blogged recently about questions the department has been getting about the safety of medical marijuana while breastfeeding.

Brewer gives Horne the OK to fight Arizona pot dispensaries

PHOENIX - Gov. Jan Brewer has signed a waiver to allow Attorney General Tom Horne to try to close down the marijuana dispensaries that her state health department is in the process of licensing.

Medical-pot dispensaries to be chosen this week

PHOENIX - State officials will award the first-ever licenses to legally sell marijuana this week under what one prosecutor said is a cloud of having them shut down the moment they open their doors.