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Rates of drug overdose deaths decreased in the United States for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to new federal data published early Thursday.The rate of overdose deaths...
Americans have plenty to worry about these days when it comes to infectious-disease outbreaks. This is the worst flu season in 15 years, there’s a serious measles outbreak roiling Texas, and the th...
Abortion rights advocates feared the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to state abortion bans would also lead to tracking women and charging women who get abortions with murder.No...
Despite the potential benefits of early detection and increasing treatment options for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, there is limited use of valuable screening and testing tools, say r...
How did health insurance coverage changes affect older adults? Michigan Medicine
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Two-year-old Evans was brought to the Nyumbani Children’s Home in Nairobi, Kenya a year ago, suffering from HIV and tuberculosis. With no family to care for him, Evans was referre...
Medicaid is under threat — again.
Republicans, who narrowly control Congress, are pushing proposals that could sharply cut funding to the government health insurance program for poor and dis...
BOSTON -- A court battle is set to resume Friday over the Trump administration’s drastic cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving di...
Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work as they race to limit th...
Most of the cases are in children between ages 5 and 17.The number of measles cases linked to an outbreak in western Texas has grown to 90, according to new data released on Friday.Almost all of th...
The 75 Soft Challenge may help lower stress and anxiety and promote healthy weight management. Me 3645 Studio/Getty Images
Proponents of the “75 Soft Challenge” on TikTok say it’s a more d...
Adding engineered human blood vessel-forming cells to islet transplants boosted the survival of the insulin-producing cells and reversed diabetes in a preclinical study led by Weill Cornell Medicin...
Texas has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country, with more than 2.7 million Texans diagnosed with the condition. About one in six people in San Antonio have type 2 diabetes, and a thi...
Congressional lawmakers are facing tricky arithmetic as they hammer out a budget plan to finance President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Republicans need to free up roughly $4 trillion to pay for ...
Visits to doctors' offices for flu-like illness fell to 6.8% from 7.7%.Flu activity remains "elevated" in the United States but is starting to show signs of abating, according to new federal data p...
“Sobering” Sheffield research shows that overheated care homes lead to elderly people’s deaths in extreme heat The Star
Journalists Discuss Health Care for Incarcerated Children and the Possibility of a Bird Flu Pandemic
KFF Health News editor-at-large for public health Céline Gounder discussed the possibility of a bird flu pandemic on WAMU’s “1A” on Feb. 20. Gounder also discussed the potential of an off-label dru...
Cartons of frozen shakes sold to nursing homes and other institutions are being recalled after an outbreak of listeria linked to the productsFebruary 22, 2025, 10:56 AMCartons of frozen shakes sold...
PARIS -- France is about to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial. While just one man is in the dock — a former surgeon accused of raping or sexual abusing 299 people, mostly child patients —...
Ethnicity and mental health impact brain health in rural older adults News-Medical.Net