Updated: 4:01 PM The Indiana State Department of Health published the school immunization requirements for the 2013-2014 school year and some new requirements have been added.

Updated: 6:49 PM It is a list that no one wants to be on, but more than 90,000 people are waiting for an organ transplant right now. One doctor is now working on a way to reduce that list to zero.

Posted: 3:42 PM The Massachusetts compounding pharmacy linked to last year’s deadly meningitis outbreak blames its cleaning contractor for the incident.

Updated: 5:38 PM A federal panel recently released a surprising report that found meditation may actually be able to change a person’s brain.

Posted: 2:57 PM Health officials say 2012 was the nation's worst year for whooping cough in nearly six decades.

Updated: 6:59 PM COPD is the third most common cause of death in the U.S., and as the disease progresses it can do irreversible damage to patients’ lungs. Doctors have a new instrument, the lung flute, to help people like Bernard Swanekamp who suffer from the chronic disease.

Posted: 10:01 PM Two men injured in car crash in Howard Township Monday afternoon.

Updated: 6:42 PM Around eighty-percent of all women in the U.S. will take birth control at some point in their lives, but the burden of taking “the pill” could soon no longer rest on women’s shoulders alone.

Updated: 6:43 PM Millions of people are made miserable by dry eye disease, and with a variety of causes comes a variety of solutions like medications, eye drops and ointments, all of which strive to give patients a little relief. Now there is a new eye-opening option for dry eye sufferers called Lipiflow that only takes a few minutes.

Updated: 6:41 PM It is the leading cause of legal blindness in older Americans, and every year, 250,000 people in the U.S. are treated for Age-Related Macular Degeneration (A.M.D.)

Updated: 6:46 PM Diabetes has been called the “epidemic of the 21st century,” and has killed more people than all cancers combined.

Posted: 6:37 PM Every year between five and 20-percent of the U.S. population gets the flu, and those infected may be passing it along before they even know they are sick. But, researchers are currently hard at work developing better ways to fight the viral infection.

Updated: 6:41 PM An estimated 33 percent of all Americans misuse alcohol, a dangerous statistic that has resulted in 85,000 preventable deaths a year.

Updated: 6:45 PM A Bass Lake bar is burnt down during an early morning fire.

Updated: 6:34 PM 60-million adults are now obese, a disease that costs 147-billion dollars to treat, Annually. As Maureen McFadden reports, a new less invasive procedure is helping people who've tried everything. To finally gain control of their weight.

Updated: 6:43 PM In 2008 more than 600,000 total knee replacement surgeries were performed. A study released this year shows that the 2008 figure was up 134-percent from 1999. But one doctor says that many people could benefit from something much simpler.

Updated: 6:36 PM Cancer and heart attack both top the list of health concerns for most Americans, but Alzheimer’s Disease, the sixth leading cause of death, is a disease that ought to be on American’s radar.

Updated: 9:33 PM Hundreds of drugs in the U.S. are unavailable to those who need them most. And after years of watching the situation get worse and worse, something is finally being done about it.

Posted: 10:32 PM The largest study to test daily multivitamin use finds they modestly lowered the risk for cancer in middle-aged and older men but did not seem to affect the chances of developing heart disease.

Updated: 7:05 PM Millions of Americans have cholesterol levels high enough to put them at risk for heart attack or stroke. A new machine has been introduced to help lower cholesterol levels, even if only temporarily.

Updated: 9:56 PM Critical drugs are coming up short across the country, and doctors are being forced to put patients on treatments that are less effective than potentially life-saving drugs.

Updated: 12:48 AM The list of everyday tasks that require your hands is infinite, from taking a shower, brushing your teeth, cooking, and even working. Newscenter 16's Kevin Lewis has learned the difficulties of life with a finger injury first-hand.

Posted: 4:29 PM Authorities are reporting 90 infections and six deaths in Michigan in a national outbreak of fungal meningitis linked to contaminated steroids from a Massachusetts pharmacy.

Updated: 7:09 PM For the first time in decades, reports show that while the elderly are suffering fewer strokes, strokes among younger populations, even children, are on the rise.

Updated: 3:15 PM People in South Bend put one foot right in front of the other in the fight against breast cancer on Saturday.