September 8, 2024, 6:07am Health
When pediatrician Eric Ball opened a refrigerator full of childhood vaccines, all the expected shots were there — DTaP, polio, pneumococcal vaccine — except one. Read story
September 8, 2024, 6:00am Health
While flames may be the most visual wildfire danger, experts say smoke and fire retardant slurry can have long-lasting effects on human health and the environment. Read story
September 8, 2024, 6:00am Health
MIAMI -- The nurses came to make a point. Many dressed in red and carried signs. Their message to the federal government: End what they say is a national hiring freeze that has led to thousands of vacancies across the veterans’ health system, affecting patient care. Read story
September 6, 2024, 8:12am Health
More than 200 cities and counties declared racism was a public health crisis in the past few years, mostly after George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis in May 2020. Racial justice advocates said they finally felt heard by the quick swell of political will to address disparities like… Read story
September 6, 2024, 7:48am Courts & Crime
Dread fills the 60-year-old truck driver’s body whenever he has to drive past the Emerald Queen Casino off Interstate 5. Read story
September 6, 2024, 5:57am Food
Whether they know it or not, most Americans don’t go a day — or often a single meal — without eating ultraprocessed foods. Read story
September 5, 2024, 11:38am Health
Fewer adolescents are vaping this year than at any point in the last decade, government officials reported Thursday, pointing to a shrinking number of high school students who are using Elf Bar and other fruity, unauthorized e-cigarettes. Read story
September 5, 2024, 8:23am Business
Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended factory inspections in the U.S. and across the world, The Associated Press has found. Read story
September 4, 2024, 9:57am Health
Attorneys representing both living and deceased patients of an Oregon hospital filed a $303 million lawsuit against the facility on Tuesday after a nurse was accused of replacing prescribed fentanyl with nonsterile tap water in intravenous drips. Read story
September 4, 2024, 9:11am Health
At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving “ Black Wall Street,” one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to bring new life into the world. Read story
