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FILE - Sesame dinner rolls sit on a mat in Concord, N.H., on Oct. 12, 2015. Food manufacturers who deliberately add sesame to their products and include it on the labels are not violating a new federal law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday, July 26, 2023.

Sesame is being newly added to some foods. The FDA says it doesn’t violate an allergy law

July 27, 2023, 7:48am Health

Food manufacturers who deliberately add sesame to products and include the ingredient on labels are not violating a new federal food allergy law, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Read story

Salmonella in ground beef sickens 16, hospitalizing 6, in four states, CDC says

July 26, 2023, 8:02am Health

Ground beef contaminated with salmonella has sickened at least 16 people, including six hospitalized, in four Northeastern states, federal health officials said Tuesday. Read story

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks in Philadelphia, July 20, 2023. Biden's administration is announcing new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments.

The Biden administration proposes new rules to push insurers to boost mental health coverage

July 25, 2023, 7:38am Health

President Joe Biden’s administration on Tuesday announced new rules meant to push insurance companies to increase their coverage of mental health treatments. Read story

Is using ‘unalive’ online helpful or hurtful?

July 25, 2023, 6:05am Health

When Emily Litman was in middle school, kids whose parents grounded them would blithely lament: “I just want to die.” Now she’s a middle school teacher in New Jersey, and when her students’ phones and TikTok access are taken away, their out-loud whining has a 21st-century digital twist: “I feel… Read story

Dr. Alfonso Sabater, left, pulls up photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal's eyes photographed before and after surgery and gene therapy, Thursday, July 6, 2023, at University of Miami Health System's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami. Antonio was born with dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic condition that causes blisters all over his body and in his eyes. He was blind for much of his life but can see again after getting gene therapy eyedrops.

Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy’s sight. Similar treatments could help millions

July 24, 2023, 8:28am Health

Dr. Alfonso Sabater pulled up two photos of Antonio Vento Carvajal’s eyes. One showed cloudy scars covering both eyeballs. The other, taken after months of gene therapy given through eyedrops, revealed no scarring on either eye. Read story

Retired coal miner James Bounds, who has pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as "black lung," poses for a photo at his home in Oak Hill, W.Va., Thursday, July, 13, 2023. Bounds said nothing can be done to reverse the debilitating illness he was diagnosed with at 37 in 1984. But he doesn't want others to suffer the same fate.

After decades of delays and broken promises, coal miners hail rule to slow rise of black lung

July 24, 2023, 7:20am Business

A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. Read story

Samantha Hart, daughter of Henry Hart, who has dementia, looks at a photo of the release of her father from police custody while her mother, Rosalind Hart, looks on at the Hart home. The family filed a complaint with Baltimore County after his health declined when he was taken to jail.

‘He didn’t need to go to jail’: Dementia experts fear more run-ins with police as condition becomes more prevalent

July 23, 2023, 6:12am Health

BALTIMORE -- Samantha Hart hardly recognized her father when she picked him up at the Baltimore County jail. Read story

Second Alzheimer’s drug in pipeline can slow the disease by a few months but with safety risk

July 23, 2023, 6:04am Health

Another experimental Alzheimer’s drug can modestly slow patients’ inevitable worsening — by about four to seven months, researchers reported Monday. Read story