States are warning beachgoers about a summertime surge in infections from a frightening, flesh-eating bacteria found in coastal waters, Read MoreContinue Reading
Pine nuts and goat’s milk should get allergy labels, say experts Michelle Roberts Digital health editor, BBC News Getty Images Pesto often contains pine nuts Allergic reactions to foods such as pine nuts and goat’s milk happen frequently enough they may need warning labels, say experts. Food packaging in theContinue Reading
The United States’ leading pediatrics association is recommending that children as young as six months old be inoculated against COVID-19=., Read MoreContinue Reading
A fifth person has died amid Central Harlem’s legionnaires’ disease outbreak, New York City health officials said, as they continue to investigate the cluster., Read MoreContinue Reading
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances…Read MoreContinue Reading
Lucy Letby’s new expert supporters claim no babies were deliberately harmed. Who should we believe? Jonathan Coffey BBC Panorama BBC Listen to Jonathan read this article. When it comes to the Lucy Letby case, there are two parallel universes. In one, the question of her guilt is settled. She isContinue Reading
For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from U.S. government vaccine recommendations, Read MoreContinue Reading
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has taken emergency action to ban the sale of a synthetic drug known as “designer Xanax” in his state, Read MoreContinue Reading
Texas health officials have announced the end of a measles outbreak that sickened more than 750 people and killed two unvaccinated school-aged children in West Texas since January., Read MoreContinue Reading
Barry Caffrey BBC News Reporting from St Pancras Coroner’s Court A baby who lived in a mouldy housing association flat in north London died of unrelated causes, a coroner has found. Akram Mohammed died in February aged 15 weeks, which his parents believed was due to damp conditions in theirContinue Reading
Cricketer Shane Warne’s legacy lives on more than three years after the death of the great spin bowler from a heart attack at the age of 52, Read MoreContinue Reading
Global talks to slash plastic production and the toxic chemicals used to produce plastic products fell apart in Geneva this week, Read MoreContinue Reading
President Traitor 47’s latest executive order about science and medicine seeks to take funding decisions out of the hands of career scientists and give them to political appointees instead. And a gunman, reportedly disgruntled over covid vaccines, shoots at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…Read MoreContinue Reading