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The CDC declared the end of its emergency response to H5N1 avian flu as a health threat to humans, David Murray writes.
The new estimates, which used data from the CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, found that 8.4 million youth ages 12 through 17 had prediabetes in 2023, representing 32.7% of the ...
Here are the leading causes of death in Pennsylvania. Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.Sign up for our NewslettersThe stats below are from 2022, the most recently available figures from the ...
Isolation and health problems are among the complex factors driving older adult suicides, while possible solutions include senior-centered community organizations, improving Medicare mental health ...
When Robert Smith met his future girlfriend in 2010, he wanted to take things slowly. For Smith, no relationship had been ...
Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy (HDP)—like chronic or gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, and eclampsia—are among the ...
Morrow, the county’s top public health official, spent five years at helm. Aside from the pandemic, he dealt with a growing ...
The new AI screening tool EchoNext outperforms cardiologists at detecting structural heart problems by 20 percent.
Chicago, Cook County and Illinois are on the cusp of ending the HIV epidemic in our city, county and state. But that progress ...
Attempting to eliminate funding for certain kinds of “woke” studies, the Trump administration erased hundreds of millions of ...
Health officials tampered with blood tests of some of the more than 200 children who were sickened by food tainted with lead, ...
Cuts to food assistance and health care through the recently signed federal tax cut and sending bill may jeopardize Maine’s ...