Honduras mandates face masks again as respiratory illnesses spike
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) -Over five years after the COVID-19 outbreak, Honduras has reinstated mandatory mask wearing in public spaces amid a spike in respiratory illnesse...
12-year-old sworn in as honorary sheriff ahead of organ transplant
A 12-year-old New York boy who has kidney failure was sworn in as an honorary sheriff this week.Suffolk County Sheriff Errol D. Toulon Jr. oversaw the swearing-in cerem...
Continuous glucose monitors are in vogue. But do you really need to track your blood sugar?
A quarter-size device that tracks the rise and fall of sugar in your blood is the latest source of hope — and hype — in the growing buzz around wearable health technolo...
FDA probes death of patient on Sarepta's Elevidys, partner Roche says death unrelated to therapy
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it was investigating the death of an eight-year-old boy who received Sarepta Therapeutics' muscular diso...
‘I was skinned alive’: Patients say cosmetic surgery chains left them disfigured
A few days after a harrowing cosmetic surgery procedure, Erin Schaeffer says she woke up with fluid leaking from an open wound in her stomach.Schaeffer went on to spend...
A dog trainer had no symptoms. An X-ray found a terminal disease
When Christopher Kennedy went to have an X-ray before a routine surgery, he thought he would be in and out. Then a technician spotted scarring in his lungs.Kennedy, 68...
Southern China hit by outbreak of mosquito-borne infection chikungunya
China is experiencing an outbreak of chikungunya, a mosquito-borne infection, with thousands of cases reported in the south.Chikungunya fever cases jumped to 4,014 on F...
PHOTO ESSAY: Many Californians lack safe tap water and don't trust cleanup efforts
THERMAL, Calif. (AP) — Agustin and Ricarda Toledo loaded eight empty 5-gallon jugs onto their truck and drove to a water store some 14 miles from their Southern Califor...
Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions
Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S.As birth rates decline in the U.S. and throughout the...
EU regulator approves injectable HIV drug that experts say could help stop transmission
LONDON (AP) — The European Medicines Agency has recommended authorizing a twice-yearly injectable drug aimed at preventing HIV, which scientists say could help end the...