In Pennsylvania, health officials use a quiet vaccination campaign designed to win the trust of the state's Amish community, which has been hit hard by the measles outbreak.
Texas, Georgia, and Wisconsin may expand their Medicaid programs when Democrats take power.
Infographics can influence how people perceive the risks of Lyme disease and encourage them to take preventive measures, according to new research co-authored by a Florida State University professor.
The unit will care for women with serious mental health needs in Kent and Medway.
The blue wave in the state on Nov. 3 now runs headlong into the reality of Texas politics and a compressed legislative calendar.
For nine months, the placenta is the primary support system of the fetus, providing both nourishment and protection. Within hours of birth, it is usually discarded as medical waste. But this organ carries clues to the child's future health and additional pregnancies for the mother, according to Indira Mysorekar, new vice dean for research, basic science and graduate studies for Penn State College of Medicine.
Wisconsin's health officials announced an infant's measles-associated death, marking the state's first in 36 years, amid 431 cases in 13 counties.
Voters in 2026 midterm elections decided state health policy ballot measures on abortion rights, marijuana laws, science bonds, and transgender youth care.
An infant in southwestern Wisconsin has died after contracting measles, the state’s first death from the disease in 36 years.
An infant in southwestern Wisconsin has died after contracting measles, the state's first death from the disease in 36 years, state officials announced Thursday.
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
Utah has become the first state to let an artificial intelligence (AI) program prescribe medication without a doctor writing the prescription, starting with acne treatments.
Massachusetts voters decisively shot down a ballot initiative that would have dismantled the state’s recreational cannabis industry.
CVS Health’s decision to split comes amid federal and state scrutiny over vertical integration.
A team of physicists from the Applied Optics Group at the University of Kent has developed a new design for an ultrathin, forward-viewing endoscope. Together with partners from King's College London and Moorfields Eye Hospital, they have engineered a device that captures optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of tissue up to about 1 mm beneath its surface. The initial prototype has a diameter of just 0.31 mm, small enough for potential use in retinal surgery.
A child in rural northern New York has died after contracting measles, marking the state's first death from the disease in 30 years.
Gov. Kathy Hochul said that the death, in Lewis County, reflected eroding vaccination levels. The state is experiencing a significant outbreak of the viral illness.
A person in Washington state has died from complications of the bird flu, the AP reported yesterday. It’s the first such death this year in the U.S., and the third…
A child in rural northern New York has died after contracting measles, marking the state's first death from the disease in 30 years, state officials announced Monday.
A child in Lewis County marks New York's first measles-associated death in over 30 years as Gov. Kathy Hochul urges people to get their vaccinations.
A person in Washington state has died from complications of the bird flu, the first such U.S. death in a year.
A person in Washington state has died from complications of bird flu, marking the first such U.S. death in a year
Florida's dengue fever outbreak has reached 485 locally acquired cases, with Tampa Bay accounting for 95% of infections and emergency declarations issued.
For years, Georgia was the only state to require some Medicaid enrollees to work to obtain and keep coverage. Those rules could expire just as the federal Medicaid work requirements they helped inspire roll out across most of the country.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have identified a mechanism to make immune cells reprogrammed by radiation therapy attack tumors rather than protect them. The study, published in Cancer Cell, shows that radiation activates a protein called TET2 on immune cells in bone marrow, where it removes chemical tags from RNA and locks these cells into an immune-suppressing state.
In California, healthcare costs are rising faster than income and inflation, and 4 in 10 adults in the state say they’re paying down medical debt. With the governor’s race in full swing, it’s still not clear what the candidates would do to fix it.
The flu has hit the U.S. earlier than usual this year. And the virus has already caused six deaths in Connecticut, the state’s department of public health says.
It follows the UK's largest and fastest growing meningitis B outbreak to date in Kent earlier this year.
NBC News is tracking confirmed measles case counts and state infection tallies. This data will be updated regularly.
This is a MedPage Today story. A strike involving nearly 5,000 healthcare workers at Providence Health in Oregon, which began Jan. 10, has come to an end. Late Monday, eight RN bargaining units voted overwhelmingly to ratify their contracts and end the strike, which was believed to be the largest involving healthcare workers, and the first involving physicians, in the state's history, according to the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), which represented the workers. Among the key provisions in the contracts were that nurses will receive wage increases ranging from 20% to 42% over the life of the contract, with an immediate 16% to 22% raise upon ratification, and that patient acuity will be factored into staffing plans. "As RNs, we believe that these contracts will lead to greater recruitment and retention of frontline nurses as wages become more aligned with other health systems, and we have staffing language that will allow us to spend more time with the patients that need the most...
This is a MedPage Today story. Cleveland Clinic officials fired back at a conservative organization's "Woke Alert" attack ad that asked if the large health system was "the wokest hospital in America," saying the ad's claims are "riddled with inaccuracies and lies." The ad, by Consumers' Research, says clinic officials "prioritize care based on skin color, perform child sex changes, push transgender propaganda on vulnerable kids, insert DEI [diversity, equity, and inclusion] into everything they do, and spend millions on climate activism." The organization also seized on a sentence in a 2023 statement from clinic CEO Tom Mihaljevic, MD, in which he said "providing high-quality healthcare is only part of our mission." Consumers' Research said Mihaljevic's statement is evidence "the Cleveland Clinic is prioritizing woke policies over patients." The 30-second ad, titled "Exposed," is reportedly running on mobile billboards at the Ohio state capitol building, the Cleveland Clinic's...
This is a MedPage Today story. Artificial intelligence (AI) could be used to prescribe medications to patients -- if a new bill makes its way through Congress. The proposed legislation, sponsored by Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.), would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to clarify that AI and machine learning technologies can qualify as a practitioner eligible to prescribe drugs if authorized by the state involved and approved by the FDA. The bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives and referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce in January. But Adam Rodman, MD, MPH, a hospitalist and director of AI programs at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston, told MedPage Today that the technology is not nearly where it needs to be for this kind of prescribing. However, "[t]hings are accelerating so quickly," he added, "I don't doubt that we will be having this conversation," at some...
