Since her sister’s health took a drastic downturn this past February, Mountain Pointe High School teacher Donna Sampanes is organizing a blood drive at the school this weekend in an effort to help her sibling.

Trumpeter/bandleader Doc Severinsen can still hit the notes, and it's not something he ever takes for granted. He always warms up.

In case you missed it, today is César Chávez Day.

Sorry, but Nancy Pelosi is wrong. We do have a spending problem and the heart of the matter is our inability to control medical costs. Spending on health care now consumes an astonishing 18 percent of our total economic output. Rising Medicare and Medicaid costs are the main drivers of our national debt crisis. Yet health care costs continue to shoot up relentlessly.

Arizona Diamondbacks President and CEO Derrick Hall has been named the 2012 recipient of the Bill Shover Leadership Award and was honored last week at a luncheon at the Talking Stick Resort.

It is astonishing to me that a self-professed “retired consulting engineer” could not understand that Professor John Lott’s hypothesis of a 3-percent-per-1-percent relationship between gun ownership and crime rate reduction is a LOGARITHMIC function.

United Blood Services has announced an urgent need for donors with O-, A-, B-, AB- and O+ blood types.

Saying they are being crushed by the cost of patients unable to pay, hospital executives rallied Wednesday to back a plan by Gov. Jan Brewer to expand the state’s Medicaid program.

United Blood Services has announced an urgent need for donors with O-, A-, B-, AB- and O+ blood types.

United Blood Services has announced an urgent need for donors with O-, A-, B-, AB- and O+ blood types.

So you have made a New Year’s resolution (again?) to get fit this year. How do you begin?

The Affordable Care Act strengthened Medicare in important ways. Signed in 2010, the federal health law already has provided free preventive health benefits to millions of people with Medicare, and saved billions of dollars for those who hit the gap in their Part D prescription drug coverage.

With an estimated 26 million Americans diagnosed, some see chronic kidney disease as a problem growing bigger and bigger.

All month, Advanced Auto Service will be “Thinking Pink” to raise both funds and awareness for the fight against breast cancer. Donations raised in stores, by associates, as well as donations made direct to Team Advanced Thinks Pink will assist the American Cancer Society.

Desert Vista High School’s student-led service club is seeking more community involvement for its blood drive next week.

Life insurance isn’t something that’s on the forefront of many people’s minds, but it’s never too early to start planning. September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, which serves as a good reminder time to consider this coverage.

One of the first New York Police Department officers on the scene the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Healing Field candle light vigil on Tuesday, Sept. 11 at 7 p.m.

"A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” — The Second Amendment

Five hospitals sit within an easy drive of my Indianapolis home. It’s comforting to know, considering that my wife will deliver our second child in late August.

April is National Childhood Abuse Awareness Month and thinking about childhood abuse makes my blood pressure rise. I am a mother of two boys and even on days when they drive me absolutely crazy, I can’t imagine ever striking them. Seeing their reaction after raising my voice is enough for me to realize the impact I have on them as a mother.

Everyone needs a passion and for Laurie Nathanson it’s laughter.

When it comes to a stroke, minutes passed mean millions of brain cells lost, doctors say. But in the East Valley, Banner Desert Medical Center is looking to shorten the time for emergency room patients to receive clot-busting drugs after a stroke.

Ahwatukee Foothills resident Marjorie Miner has spent her whole life as a devout and knowledgeable registered Republican, and now the Maricopa County Republican Committee is recognizing her for it.

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House:

Text of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, as provided by the White House: