Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and Muhlenberg Township have their own food safety…
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By MATTHEW PERRONE and LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Annual COVID-19 shots for healthy younger adults and children will no longer be routinely…
By MIKE STOBBE and JONEL ALECCIA Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu, but some experts are puzzling over why…
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union…
By Michelle Andrews, KFF Health News When a woman collapsed on an escalator at the Buffalo, New York, airport last June, Phil Clough knew what…
By Brett Kelman, KFF Health News NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Federal prosecutors sought a maximum prison sentence of nearly 20 years for the CEO of Pain…
By Paula Span, KFF Health News A prime example of elderspeak: Cindy Smith was visiting her father in his assisted living apartment in Roseville, California.…
These researchers are trying to diagnose CTE during life. They’re recruiting former football players
Researchers are hoping they can tackle the mystery of how to diagnose CTE in the living. The Boston University CTE Center and other research centers…
By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — With Utah’s first-in-the-nation ban on fluoride in public drinking water set to take effect Wednesday, dentists who…
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and REBECCA BOONE WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states…
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. children have died this flu season than at any time since the swine…
By Natalie Krebs, Iowa Public Radio, KFF Health News Even by rural hospital standards, Keokuk County Hospital and Clinics in southeastern Iowa is small. Related…
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Adelynn Campbell’s last plane trip ended with a panic attack that she got through largely…
By Arthur Allen, KFF Health News While the most serious measles epidemic in a decade has led to the deaths of two children and spread…
By CARLA K. JOHNSON Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings — colonoscopies, mammograms and lung scans — for several months in 2020 as…