By CHRISTINA LARSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Ticks can be active in any season and it’s important to check for and remove the bloodsuckers…
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By TOM MURPHY, Associated Press IV therapy clinics are springing up around the country, touting quick ways to recover from a hangover or a hard…
From a barbecue explosion to a severe firework injury, a lot can go wrong when celebrating the Fourth of July. When it does, minutes –…
By Jariel Arvin, KFF Health News On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next,…
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ, Staff Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Jeremy Didier had taken her son to a psychologist for a possible ADHD evaluation when she…
By LEANNE ITALIE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young…
By The Associated Press During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to…
By MIKE STOBBE and LAURAN NEERGAARD ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under…
By Sono Motoyama, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH — Depending on where you shop and in which aisle, you may have noticed the colorful packaging of “gut…
By CEDAR BURNETT, Associated Press In this age of heightened anxiety, many of us turn to our pets for emotional support. But is our behavior…
By Claire Sibonney, KFF Health News Ali Foley Shenk still remembers the panic when her 10-year-old son, Dean, finished a 20-ounce box of raisins in…
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline.org More American children and teens die from firearms than any other cause, but there are more deaths — and wider racial…
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org Nine months after Monroe County Hospital in rural South Alabama closed its labor and delivery department in October 2023, Grove…
By JONEL ALECCIA, AP Health Writer A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to…
By GEOFF MULVIHILL The abortion funding system across the U.S. is battered three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states…
By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged Monday after the biotech drugmaker reported a second death in connection with…