What is ‘white lung’ pneumonia that caused an alarming childhood outbreak in the US?
An Ohio county is experiencing a pediatric pneumonia outbreak, including several cases of mycoplasma pneumonia or white lunga disease that
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The high cost of having an autoimmune disease in the United States
After years of debilitating bouts of fatigue, Beth VanOrden finally thought she had found the answer to her problems when
Another 18 people get sick from salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupe melon
Health authorities are warning consumers to refrain from consuming cantaloupe melons sold in some stores, after another 18 infections related
I am a doctor and the flu killed my healthy 16-year-old daughter: I urge you to get vaccinated
Today As a pediatrician, Dr. César Termulo, 53, treats many children sick with the flu during the winter season. When
If commuting in your car causes your blood pressure to rise, it may be due to traffic pollution.
Air polluted by the gases expelled by cars during traffic hours can sharply raise people’s blood pressure almost from the
Americans can ask for more free at-home COVID-19 tests
Americans can order more free COVID-19 tests online and receive them at home. The US government is offering to send
Life expectancy increases in the US but remains far below that in other developed countries
Life expectancy in the United States increased last year to 77 years and six months, but it is still nowhere
How this mother’s fatal overdose led to the dismantling of a national fentanyl trafficking ring
It all started with the death of a 20-year-old mother, just a month after her baby’s first birthday. She is
More children end up in the emergency room for eating sweets with cannabis: “Excess THC can be fatal”
Today An emergency pediatrician is warning about a rise in children accidentally consuming marijuana-laced edibles, which often look and taste
Through tears and with a lullaby, this hospital closed its delivery unit. He is not the only one and it worries experts and mothers
At 6:58 a.m. last Thursday, Dr. Angela Adams Powell spoke to the nurses at the hospital in south Alabama where