Health

stock_colors/iStock (NEW YORK) — Country singer Mickey Guyton is opening up about her son’s recent stay at a hospital intensive care unit. Taking to social media with an update on Saturday, she wrote, “My baby fell ill on November 11th, eventually requiring a trip to the icu. It turned out to be dehydration because of […]

Ridofranz/iStock (NEW YORK) — While Thanksgiving will be a time to gather again this year for many people, thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, it may for other people be the start of a difficult holiday season. Some people may be home alone on Thanksgiving by choice, following safety guidelines, while other families will be missing loved […]

PeopleImages/iStock (LONDON) — The UK approved a new HIV treatment that requires an injection every other month, rather than the current routine of taking pills every day. The UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence estimated that around 13,000 people will now be eligible for cabotegravir with rilpivirine, the injectable medication. There were around […]

Milan Markovic/iStock (NEW YORK) — Millions more vaccinated adults across the U.S. became eligible for a COVID-19 booster shot on Friday. And yet, the vast majority of vaccinated Americans were already eligible — many just didn’t know it. According to an October survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4 in 10 vaccinated […]

kuzma/iStock (NEW YORK) — A group of seven women are suing Yale University, claiming they underwent invasive and painful procedures for in-vitro fertilization and received saline instead of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller. According to the complaint, the women received saline after a nurse at the Yale University Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Clinic stole fentanyl for […]

Teka77/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 18 and older who is already considered fully vaccinated, teeing up many Americans to gain extra protection ahead of a possible winter surge in cases. “The FDA has determined that the currently available […]

Courtesy of Michael and Emily Johnson (VACAVILLE, Calif.) — Emily Johnson had planned on giving birth to her second child in a hospital, with an epidural. Instead, Johnson, 31, of Vacaville, California, gave birth to her son, Thomas Alan, on Nov. 4, on her front lawn, with no pain medication. Johnson told “Good Morning America” […]

Michael Hickey/Getty Images (ANN ARBOR, Mich.) — Public health officials are investigating an influenza outbreak at a Michigan university that has resulted in more than 500 cases, as several schools have also seen surges in flu activity. The University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus in Washtenaw County has reported over 525 cases among students since […]

EHStock (NEW YORK) — More than 100,000 people in the U.S. died of a drug overdose during the first year of the pandemic, a nearly 29% increase from the same time period in 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday. The vast majority of those deaths were due to opioids, particularly synthetic […]

Courtney Moore (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — November is National Diabetes Month. Around 1.6 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes, including 200,000 young people under the age of 20, according to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). A California mom is sharing a warning for other parents after her 16-month-old son’s wet diapers ended […]