Crosses representing victims of gun violence stand outside Collins Academy High School in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. With frustration mounting over lawmakers’ inaction on gun control, the American Medical Association…
A nurse prepares a flu shot in Atlanta. On Friday, health officials said the flu killed more children in the past year that during any other regular flu season in…
This combination of 2004 and 2016 file photos shows fashion designer Kate Spade and chef Anthony Bourdain in New York. A U.S. report released in June 2018 found an uptick…
Residents advised to limit activity, close windows to avoid exposure
Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, D-Decatur, promotes the breast cancer prevention stamp from the well on the floor of the House in Atlanta. Countless breast cancer patients in the future will…
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center via AP<br><br>Pancreatic cancer cells, nuclei in blue, grow as a sphere encased in membranes, red. In a rare triumph for tough-to-beat pancreatic cancer, patients who…
An independent World Health Organization panel is backing away from the UN health agency’s own call two years ago for taxing sugary drinks, in a new report on diseases like…
On Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said four more deaths have been linked to a national romaine lettuce food poisoning outbreak, bringing the total to 5.Associated…
Equipment that administers chemotherapy drugs at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C. New guidelines released Wednesday recommend U.S. adults start colon cancer screening earlier, at age 45…
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health via AP<br><br>This undated photo from video provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health shows a scene from one of the…
There have been 35 confirmed cases, including 12 deaths. The U.N. health agency and partners have vaccinated more than 400 people with an experimental Ebola vaccine, the first time it…
It became clear this place had a bullying problem on its hands. What many found surprising was that the perpetrators and victims alike were all senior citizens. Nursing homes, senior…
JERRY McBRIDE/Durango Herald file<br><br>Postoperative cognitive dysfunction is a little-known condition that affects a substantial number of older adults after surgerydu1-i-syn “He forgets things and will ask you the same thing…
Similar groups offered for parents of kids with chronic health conditions
A capsule packed with electronics and genetically engineered living cells in Cambridge, Mass. Researchers at MIT, who tested the swallowable device in pigs, say it correctly detected signs of bleeding.…
Josephine Rizo sits in her home with her stack of bills from her ongoing battle with cancer in Phoenix. As treatment costs soar and insurance coverage shrinks, hospitals and patient…
Workers dig a new grave at a church cemetery in New Vienna, Iowa. Preliminary data released on Wednesday shows U.S. death rates rose again last year, indicating that 2017 likely…
Federal regulators have approved the first nonopioid treatment to ease withdrawal symptoms from quitting opioids.US WorldMeds via AP The U.S. Food and Drug Administration expedited approval of Lucemyra to help…
A Milky-Way candy bar is deep-fried in oil free of trans fats at a food booth at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. Indiana was the first state to require…
An artist’s rendering of the packaging for the drug Aimovig, the first in a new class of long-acting drugs designed to prevent chronic migraines. On Thursday, the Food and Drug…
According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released on Thursday saw the lowest number of U.S. births in 30 years, with birth rates declining not only for…
board approves contractor; sheriff clears district in investigation
reports expansion is on track, but cash on hand is 2 months short
A son, at right, holds his mother’s hand at her nursing home in Michigan. Most young adults haven’t given much thought to their own needs as they get older, but…
board approves contractor; sheriff clears district in investigation
reports expansion is on track, but cash on hand is 2 months short
A survey of U.S. cancer doctors released Thursday finds nearly half say they’ve recently recommended medical marijuana to patients, although most say they don’t know enough about medicinal use.Associated Press…
Threshold Choir members center themselves before visiting a patient at the Halquist Memorial Inpatient Center in Arlington, Va.Salwan Georges/ Washington Post These women are part of the Threshold Choir, a…
In its first draft guidelines on fat intake, the U.N. health agency said to avoid piling on the pounds, both adults and children should ensure that no more than 10…
A 2013 photo shows Jeanne Erdmann with her mother, Florence Greco, at age 98.Angie Zumwalt via Washington Post My mom’s death was perfect, and hospice helped. But her dementia made…
