Last week, a second unvaccinated child died after contracting measles during an outbreak in Texas. Here is what local health departments want you to know about keeping your family safe from the highly contagious, airborne virus that has made a comeback since being officially eradicated in the ...
SALT LAKE CITY — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday said he plans to tell the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention soon to stop recommending fluoridation in communities nationwide. Kennedy also said he’s assembling a task force to focus on the issue. Also on ...
WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance ...
SARANAC LAKE — Local research and biotechnology laboratories Trudeau Institute and Ampersand Biosciences have received a $1 million grant to produce tools aiding the research of the flu. The $1,084,824 grant is a second-phase Small Business Innovative Research grant from the National ...
California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That raises new questions about the virus, which has spread for years in wild birds, commercial poultry ...
NEW YORK — The U.S. flu season is underway, with cases surging across much of the country, health officials said Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted sharp increases in several measures, including lab tests and emergency room visits. “It’s been increasing at ...