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Heatwaves this summer have brought travel disruption, overheating homes and school closures for millions – and there is a fifth heatwave expected to hit this week

The“Risky or Not” podcastis billed as being “a short podcast about everyday risks from germs,” and it’s a way to stay informed about the latest outbreaks of foodborne illness

ChronicleBio opens a sign-up link on 11 August for mobile blood draws at patients’ homes. The first 250 people pay nothing. After that the test costs $400, charged at cost. “The whole point for us is not to make money,” co-founder Fidji Simo told Fortune, which first reported the plan. “It’s to collect data so…

The County released a report to the public today with details about conditions at the Otay Mesa Detention Center after taking legal action to conduct a health and environmental inspection

Interventional psychiatry modalities and medications, often used for patients who have treatment-resistant depression, intense suicidality and hard-to-treat mental health conditions, are becoming more common as first-line treatment options

Maine (WABI) – A cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to the iceberg lettuce recall has reached Maine, with the Maine CDC confirming 10 cases connected to the multistate outbreak

For nine people in Louisiana, what began as an ordinary encounter with coastal water became a fight for survival against a bacteria most people had never heard of. Five of them did not survive, turning a naturally occurring organism found along the Gulf Coast into a serious health warning for communities across the state

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, said the World Health Organization (WHO) as responders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) battle the surge in cases

President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order that aims to reducethe number of universally recommended vaccines for children — a move that reaffirms the dramatic overhaul Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced earlier this year that has been blocked in court

The ongoing murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mother who in 2023 killed her three children in Massachusetts, has catapulted into the spotlight the severe mental health condition known as postpartum psychosis. It’s left many parents and concerned loved ones to wonder what causes the medical emergency and when to seek help