This fall, the health of the nation will depend in large part on vaccines.Health officials are banking on vaccinations to contain monkeypox and polio before those become standing threats in the United States. They're counting on updated boosters to restore…
A minor in New York state has reportedly contracted monkeypox -- a first among children in the state and at least the third reported case of the disease among children in the US.The child lives in New York but not…
Accepting your body as it is and stopping all the dieting may sound great, but would doing so hurt your health?Advertisements, pop culture and even doctors can talk about health and weight as if they are one and the same:…
One organ in a woman's body ages more than twice as fast as all other tissues, wreaking havoc with both fertility and long-term health."Ovaries are very strange, very odd in terms of the rest of the human body. We can…
Wendy's restaurants have been associated with an E. coli outbreak reported in four states, with 84 people infected and 38 hospitalized, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.No deaths have been reported.A specific food has not been…
My mother never got to buy shoes. At least not in that obsessive, stereotypically female way we see in shows like Sex and the City.She contracted polio in her native Argentina in 1941 when she was two years old, more…
The US Food and Drug Administration authorized Novavax's Covid-19 vaccine on Friday for emergency use in adolescents. It is the fourth coronavirus vaccine available in the United States and, unlike the others, it uses a protein-based technology.The vaccine was authorized…
At first it was Covid. Now it's monkeypox. Organizers of a free concert at an upcoming LGBTQ festival known as Southern Decadence in New Orleans have canceled the concert due to the threat of monkeypox.The larger six-day festival September 1-5…
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed a Nebraska child who died after swimming was infected with the brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri, an epidemiologist for the state, Dr. Matthew Donahue, told CNN.The amoeba is typically found in…
Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt -- and sometimes also the leg. That's because the pain travels along the sciatic nerves, the longest nerves in your body. Each sciatic…
Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt…
Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain…
Often associated with low back pain, sciatica tends to be more of a pain in the butt --…
Dr. Stuart Brown is an expert in having fun.For more than 60 years, the 89-year-old psychiatrist and clinical researcher has studied the importance of play — in young and adult humans, as well as animals of all kinds.Play is important…
The Biden administration announced new plans Thursday that should make it a lot easier for millions of kids to get access to mental and physical health services at school.The announcement specifically impacts the tens of millions of children who get…
Globally, nearly half of deaths due to cancer can be attributable to preventable risk factors, including the three leading risks of: smoking, drinking too much alcohol or having a high body mass index, a new paper suggests.The research, published Thursday…
Getting sick from Covid-19 is bad enough. What if you're one of the unlucky people who experience what is called long Covid? It's a medley of symptoms that can occur months -- and even years -- after recovering from Covid,…
In the first inning of a Little League Southwest Region championship game in Waco, Texas, last week, pitcher Kaiden Shelton threw a ball high and fast, hitting 12-year-old batter Isaiah Jarvis in the head so hard it knocked his helmet…
Boston Children's Hospital, which calls itself "home to the first pediatric and adolescent transgender health program in the United States," says it has faced a "large volume" of threats of violence for offering that kind of care.The hospital said in…
Most monkeypox cases in the current outbreak have been linked to sexual activity, but research published Wednesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers new insight into other ways it may be spreading.A man noticed his first…
