Haitians in America vs. racist narratives, again
A recent example was a gathering of local Haitians I attended in the basement of Mattapan’s Mount Carmel church. We were ...
Whooping cough cases on the rise in the US, CDC says
Whooping cough cases have gone up in the U.S. compared to last year, according to new statistics from the Centers for Disease ...
CDC: Three contacts monitored after Missouri’s first H5 bird flu case
Health officials identified three contacts, including two healthcare workers, who were closely monitored after a bird flu ...
A 70-year-old lost 70 pounds and got into weight-lifting. She shares 4 tips for getting fit whatever your age.
Fast-forward eight years, and Joan MacDonald is a 78-year-old fitness influencer with 1.9 million followers who can hip ...
Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping. The Reasons Are Not Perfectly Clear.
The decrease across the country is a major breakthrough in efforts to reverse the effects of fentanyl. Researchers and health ...
Human Case of Rare Mosquito-Borne Illness Reported in New York State
A person in Ulster County has been hospitalized with Eastern equine encephalitis, health officials said. It is the first ...
New York's first human case of eastern equine encephalitis reported in Ulster County
State health officials are urging residents to protect themselves from mosquito bites after an upstate resident tested ...
States, hospital systems try less punitive drug testing of pregnant women and newborns
Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to ...
Does Ozempic work for long-term weight loss? New study says yes
Long-term weight loss for patients with obesity proved mostly successful after taking prescription-only injectable ...
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Health care worker is third person to become ill after contact with Missouri patient who had bird flu
(CNN) — A third close contact of a patient in Missouri who was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has reported that they also ...
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Wastewater monitoring proves effective for tracking foodborne pathogens
First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...
Whooping cough cases are soaring. Can infecting people help test a better vaccine?
This year's spike in cases marks a return to pre-pandemic levels of this infection, which is also called pertussis.