April 4, 2024, 8:13am Health
Tucked away inside the teachers lounge at a New Hampshire elementary school, Amber Warner was having her teeth checked out for the first time. Read story
April 4, 2024, 7:44am Health
An archway of blue and white balloons adorned the entrance of an otherwise unremarkable office building in San Jose this week, marking the grand opening of a new high-tech laboratory for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, which serves 4.5 million people in the region. Read story
April 4, 2024, 7:39am Business
The maker of a drug for Lou Gehrig’s disease that recently failed in a large study said Thursday it will pull the medicine from the market, acknowledging it didn’t help patients with the deadly neurological condition. Read story
April 3, 2024, 1:20pm Health
A poultry facility in Michigan and egg producer in Texas both reported outbreaks of avian flu this week. The latest developments on the virus also include infected dairy cows and the first known instance of a human catching bird flu from a mammal. Read story
April 3, 2024, 10:24am Health
President Joe Biden teamed up with Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday to promote his administration’s efforts to lower the cost of inhalers and other health care needs, as the White House continues its effort to highlight Biden’s legislative achievements to voters ahead of the November elections. Read story
April 2, 2024, 9:11am Health
Hospitals must obtain written informed consent from patients before subjecting them to pelvic exams and exams of other sensitive areas — especially if an exam will be done while the patient is unconscious, the federal government said Monday. Read story
April 1, 2024, 8:12am Health
Jazmin Evans had been waiting for a new kidney for four years when her hospital revealed shocking news: She should have been put on the transplant list in 2015 instead of 2019 — and a racially biased organ test was to blame. Read story
April 1, 2024, 8:09am Health
Through his office window at what was then one of Africa’s few modern clinics dealing with HIV and AIDS, the man who now oversees the United States’ threatened global AIDS effort used to hear the sound of taxis pulling up throughout the day. Read story
April 1, 2024, 6:07am Editor's Choice
When he was growing up, Ivan Howtopat dreamed of being a famous skateboarder. Playing college basketball. Buying his mom a house. Read story
March 31, 2024, 6:00am Health
Ruth Richardson waited near the Iowa capitol’s grand staircase, just outside the limelight. At the podium nearby, abortion-rights supporters railed against the state’s conservative swing on abortion following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, calling Republican bills “nonsense,” “pseudoscientific” and “speaking for the extreme.” Richardson glanced at her speech and… Read story
