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…
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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…
By Henry Larweh, KFF Health News Fentanyl, the deadly synthetic opioid driving the nation’s high drug overdose rates, is also caught up in another increasingly…
By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: Get off your phone!…
By JOCELYN GECKER, Associated Press MANSFIELD, Ohio (AP) — The topic of a new course at Mansfield Senior High School is one that teenagers across…