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This 2022 photo provided by Richard Blodgett shows Blodgett and his son, Jakob. Blodgett was arrested in December, and Jakob was placed in a foster home under the Arizona Department of Child Safety where he developed complications from diabetes and died.

Arizona dad seeking answers after son dies in state care

January 16, 2023, 2:05pm Health

Richard Blodgett, a single father, was jailed on a drug charge when a worker from Arizona’s child welfare agency delivered the news: His son was brain dead and on life support — just days after being taken into state custody. Read story

FILE - First Lady Jill Biden hosts a conversation on women's empowerment at the residence of the US ambassador in Mexico City, on Jan. 9, 2023.

Jill Biden’s skin cancer could fuel advocacy in cancer fight

January 16, 2023, 8:47am Health

Jill Biden’ s advocacy for curing cancer didn’t start with her son’s death in 2015 from brain cancer. It began decades earlier, long before she came into the national spotlight, and could now be further energized by her own brush with a common form of skin cancer. Read story

Narcan, an antidote for overdoses, is available for free from a vending machine at Recovery Cafe, providing access to the life-saving drug to anyone in need.

With opioid overdoses still on the rise, more regular people are carrying Narcan

January 15, 2023, 6:05am Health

Monica Clayton was standing in line at a Burger King on Market Street in downtown San Francisco just before 7 a.m. when a frantic man ran into the restaurant. Read story

The aftermath of a Russian airstrike on a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on March 9, 2022.

Funding uncertainty weighs on UN maternal health agency

January 15, 2023, 6:02am Health

Ten years ago, Ukraine wasn’t a relatively large recipient of international aid for health and family planning. Read story

Commercial airplanes are required to carry sealed emergency medical kits, like the one pictured, that contain specific equipment and medications. But health professionals who have volunteered to help in in-flight emergencies say the kits can be inadequate and are sometimes missing required items.

During in-flight emergencies, sometimes airlines’ medical kits fall short

January 15, 2023, 6:00am Business

In March, a Frontier Airlines flight was headed from Phoenix to Las Vegas when a female passenger stopped breathing. The flight attendant yelled in the cabin for help. Read story

Jenny Sze, ED Registrar checks in with a patient at St Vincent's Hospital Emergency Department on December 04, 2021, in Sydney, Australia. To combat infection spread the hospital set up a separate COVID-19 section of the emergency department, utilizing a newly built section of the hospital to have a Red (COVID-19) zone and a Green (general emergency zone). Staff expects the demand for ongoing treatment will continue to grow as an estimated 30% of people who contract COVID-19 suffer persistent symptoms, known as 'long COVID'.

Even after mild cases of COVID, long COVID symptoms can linger for a year or more

January 15, 2023, 5:45am Health

For some COVID-19 patients, the initial illness isn’t nearly as bad as the persistent and sometimes disabling symptoms that linger for months or years afterward. These are the people with long COVID, a complex chronic illness that can afflict without regard for age, sex, vaccination status or medical history. Read story

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Doctors tend to worry that holiday gatherings can spark new surges in infectious diseases like the flu. But new government data suggests that didn't happen this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023 reported that flu has continued to wane this month. (AP Photo/Mark J.

Holidays didn’t lead to feared bump in flu cases, CDC says

January 14, 2023, 6:00am Health

New U.S. government data suggests holiday gatherings didn't spark surges in respiratory diseases. Read story

Protestors march on the streets around Montefiore Medical Center during a nursing strike, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, in the Bronx borough of New York. A nursing strike that has disrupted patient care at two of New York City's largest hospitals has entered its third day.

Even as NY nurses return to work, more strikes could follow

January 13, 2023, 8:07am Health

Even as 7,000 nurses return to work at two of New York’s busiest hospitals after a three-day strike, colleagues around the country say it’s just a matter of time before frontline workers at other hospitals begin walking the picket line. Read story

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, middle, speaks at a news conference in Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. Bonta announced a lawsuit accusing multiple companies that make or promote insulin of keeping prices too high.

California latest to sue drug companies over insulin prices

January 13, 2023, 7:31am Business

California on Thursday announced it will sue the companies that make and promote most of the nation’s insulin, accusing them of scheming to illegally increase the price of the drug and demanding they return millions of dollars to some diabetics who state officials say were overcharged for the medicine they… Read story

FILE - The Veterans Affairs Department is shown on June 21, 2013, in Washington. The Veterans' Affairs Department on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2022, announced three grants to help veterans who are homeless or who are at risk of losing their homes.

Native American veterans wouldn’t face copays for health care under new VA rule

January 11, 2023, 9:52am Health

The Department of Veterans Affairs would waive copays for Native American veterans at VA hospitals and clinics under a new rule the agency proposed Wednesday, fulfilling a bipartisan mandate Congress enacted more than two years earlier. Read story