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In this photo provided by Brittany Randall, Randall, left, and her daughter, Kamberlyn Bowler, pose for a selfie photo in Grand Junction, Colo., in the summer of 2024.

Colorado teen fights kidney failure after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounders

In this photo provided by Brittany Randall, Randall, left, and her daughter, Kamberlyn Bowler, pose for a selfie photo in Grand Junction, Colo., in the summer of 2024.

November 3, 2024, 5:29am Business

A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected. Read story

Overdose deaths are rising among Black and Indigenous Americans

November 2, 2024, 5:58am Health

The recent decline in overdose deaths hides a tremendous disparity by race: Deaths have fallen only among white people while continuing to rise among people of color, according to a new Stateline analysis of federal data. Read story

For reproductive health workers, a big change since the Dobbs ruling

November 2, 2024, 5:32am Health

These days, half of what was the first nonprofit clinic in the nation to house a birthing center and provide abortions is empty. Read story

PBM math: Big chains are paid $23.55 to fill a blood pressure prescription. Small drugstores get $1.51

November 2, 2024, 5:00am Health

While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some stopped in for coffee, ice cream, homemade cake, or cookies. Read story

FILE - Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are displayed during a vaccine clinic in Townshend, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot.

An Idaho health department isn’t allowed to give COVID-19 vaccines anymore. Experts say it’s a first

FILE - Booster shots of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine are displayed during a vaccine clinic in Townshend, Vt., on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. U.S. health officials say 4.4 million Americans have rolled up their sleeves for the updated COVID-19 booster shot.

November 1, 2024, 10:40am Health

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board. Read story

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the US legally. Here’s how it works

November 1, 2024, 9:20am Health

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether they are in the U.S. legally and track the cost of treating people without legal status following an order by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott that expands the state’s clash with the Biden administration over immigration. Read story

Americans are anxious and frustrated about the presidential campaign, an AP-NORC poll finds

October 31, 2024, 8:20am Health

Most Americans are feeling a lot of emotions heading into Election Day, but excitement is not one of them. Read story

A McDonald&rsquo;s Quarter Pounder hamburger and fries are shown in this photograph, in New York&rsquo;s Times Square, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.

McDonald’s E. coli case count rises as federal officials inspect an onion grower

A McDonald&rsquo;s Quarter Pounder hamburger and fries are shown in this photograph, in New York&rsquo;s Times Square, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.

October 31, 2024, 7:30am Business

Federal officials on Wednesday reported more cases of E. coli poisoning among people who ate at McDonald’s, as government investigators seeking the outbreak’s source identified an “onion grower of interest” in Washington state. Read story

FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018.

Tuberculosis infected 8 million people last year, the most WHO has ever tracked

FILE - A relative adjusts the oxygen mask of a tuberculosis patient at a TB hospital on World Tuberculosis Day in Hyderabad, India, March 24, 2018.

October 30, 2024, 8:22am Health

More than 8 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis last year, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, the highest number recorded since the U.N. health agency began keeping track. Read story

A computer screen displays text produced by an artificial intelligence-powered transcription program called Whisper at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. In this example, the speaker said, "as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried…." while the program transcribes that as " It's fine. It's just too sensitive to tell.

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said

A computer screen displays text produced by an artificial intelligence-powered transcription program called Whisper at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. In this example, the speaker said, "as the um, the, her father dies not too long after he remarried…." while the program transcribes that as " It's fine. It's just too sensitive to tell.

October 28, 2024, 9:43am Business

Tech behemoth OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” Read story