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Northwestern Medicine investigators have received an R01 research grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to evaluate a new simulation-based mastery learning (SBML) curriculum to help patients and their caregivers improve self-care for chronic heart disease

It’s a summer of public health nightmares. There’s the cyclosporiasis outbreak throughout much of the United States, dense smoke pollution from Canadian and Minnesotan wildfires and skyrocketing measles cases, which are at a 35-year high

As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak

There were 1,852 press releases posted in the last 24 hours and 482,530 in the last 365 days

July 31, 2026, 6:59 AM EDT / Source: NBC New York By Tom Shea, NBC New York and Andrew Siff, NBC New York

A family vacation to Oregon turned tragic when a 5-year-old died of an extremely rare health condition that came on suddenly in early July, the boy’s family told news outlets

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The woman charged with fatally stabbing a Kansas City firefighter-paramedic plans to pursue a defense of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect

Wildfires are often seen as a danger only for people living close to the flames but wildfire smoke can travel across regions, countries and even continents, worsening the air quality of down-wind communities with both physical and psychological impacts, including for people who live far from the fire itself. In a changing climate, the risk…

HealthDay News — A fifth person has died in a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, New York City health officials said