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In 2023, Bret Hulick was in his second year of medical school at LECOM in Erie, analyzing the case of a 24-year-old colon cancer patient. The patient had to choose between an established therapy with a high likelihood of unwanted side effects or a newer experimental treatment.

For Hulick, though, it wasn't an academic exercise. He was the ...Read more

Michele Andrews had been seeing her internist in Northampton, Massachusetts, a small city two hours west of Boston, for about 10 years. She was happy with the care, though she started to notice it was becoming harder to get an appointment.

“You’d call and you’re talking about weeks to a month,” Andrews said.

That’s not surprising, as...Read more

After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make America Healthy Again” movement cheered at having a champion in the federal government.

Now the grumbling has begun. Some of Kennedy’s allies say he’s become almost inaccessible since his confirmation and complain that...Read more

BALTIMORE — At least two cases of listeria have been linked to ice cream in the Baltimore metro area, prompting health and safety concerns.

Listeria is a bacterium that can contaminate food and cause serious, sometimes fatal infections, particularly in pregnant women, newborns, the elderly and those with weakened immune systems, according to ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The Virginia Department of Health confirmed the state’s first measles case of 2025 in a Saturday announcement.

The agency said a child 4 or under living in the state’s northwest health region contracted the disease after recent international travel.

“This first case of measles in Virginia this year is a reminder of ...Read more

DETROIT — Local and state health officials confirmed Thursday that Michigan is experiencing its first measles outbreak since 2019.

An outbreak is defined as three or more related cases, which has been confirmed in Montcalm County, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Mid-Michigan District Health Department...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday about the legality of the process to mandate cost-free preventive care used by millions of Americans, in a case brought by a group of Texas businesses objecting to coverage for an HIV preventive drug.

The U.S. government has asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U....Read more

_Nearly a half-century after the Supreme Court ruled that school spankings are permissible and not “cruel and unusual punishment”, many U.S. states allow physical punishment for students who have misbehaved.

_Today, over a third of the states allow teachers to paddle or spank students. More than 100,000 students are paddled in U.S...Read more

At a swim meet just outside St. Louis, heads turned when a team of young swimmers walked through the rec center with their parents in tow.

A supportive mom kept her eye on the clock while the Makos Swim Team athletes tucked their natural curls, braids, and locs into yellow swimming caps. In the bleachers, spectators whispered about the team’s...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My friend swears by intermittent fasting since her recent weight loss. I know it works for some people, but is it actually healthy?

ANSWER: Although it may appear to be a new trend, intermittent fasting has been popular for over 1,500 years. While we know that it works for some people to lose weight, the reality is that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- A major initiative at Children's Hospital Los Angeles aims to address a critical but much overlooked need: mental health care for families experiencing the complex flood of joy, fear and upheaval during the first few years of a child's life.

Myriad issues can emerge or become exacerbated in a family after a baby is born, ...Read more

Kathy C. from Indiana writes: “Recently, I read that people with osteopenia should avoid foods with oxalates. It's hard for calcium to be absorbed. The partial list includes healthy food that I like to eat: spinach, beets, tofu, cocoa, kiwi, oranges, pineapple, peanuts, cashews. Is there a safe amount that can be eaten? How often? Thank you....Read more

The federal government covered up an outbreak of E. coli that killed one person and spread across at least 15 states, according to a report published Thursday.

A series of E. coli cases was first reported in November in St. Louis County, Mo., but the Food and Drug Administration never released any information about the outbreak, NBC News ...Read more

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.”

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In January, a teenager in suburban St. Louis informed his high school counselor that a classmate said he planned to kill himself later that day.

The 14-year-old classmate denied it, but his ...Read more