Health Care

Reed Abelson, The New York Times and Jordan Rau | (TNS) KFF Health News Margaret Newcomb, 69, a retired French teacher, is desperately trying to protect her retirement savings by caring for her 82-year-old husband, who has severe dementia,…
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A cat-borne parasite that infects about 40 million people in the United States may cause adults to be more frail as they age, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study. The parasite is already associated with risk-taking…
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Jason Gale | Bloomberg News (TNS) The loss of taste and smell — hallmarks of a coronavirus infection early in the pandemic — became a stubborn blight for many long COVID-19 sufferers, but new research shows that the sensory problems…
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By JONEL ALECCIA (AP Health Writer) A new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss drug, U.S. regulators announced Wednesday. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s Zepbound, or…
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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted November 6, 2023 7:26 am Descrease article font size Increase article…
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A new report released Thursday says that privatization of health care in Ontario won’t reduce wait times but may actually increase them. That’s because for-profit centres could as well face the staffing shortages that have plagued the…
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Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS) This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments. It’s a bid to improve overall health…
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The Day of the Dead celebration is this week, so we look at death in the U.S. It’s a dead woman’s party The origins of Day of the Dead trace back a few hundred years to an Aztec festival that honored their goddess of the dead,…
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Colleen DeGuzman | (TNS) KFF Health News Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Virginia, is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the first week of…
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By Brenda Goodman | CNN Move over mosquitos. There’s another blood-sucking biter Americans need to guard against because it can spread disease: the sand fly. Sand flies are tiny tan flies — about the quarter of the size of a mosquito — that…
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