BATON ROUGE, La. — For months, residents in the southeast corner of Louisiana have relied on bottled water for drinking and cooking, with the water from the faucet coming out salty. Plaquemines Parish Councilman Mark "Hobbo" Cognevich, who represents the affected area, said grocery stores are constantly having to restock plastic water bottles, neighbors have [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For months, Carlton Clemons endured crippling pain from a rotting wisdom tooth. He couldn't sleep, barely ate and relied on painkillers to get by. The 67-year-old from Nashville, Tenn., could not afford to see a dentist on the $1,300-a-month his family gets in Social Security and disability payments. So, he waited [...]
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — It's a Monday in September, but with schools closed, the three children in the Pruente household have nowhere to be. Callahan, 13, contorts herself into a backbend as 7-year-old Hudson fiddles with a balloon and 10-year-old Keegan plays the piano. Like a growing number of students around the country, the Pruente [...]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Some people seeking the newest COVID-19 vaccine are running into high demand, insurance headaches and supply delays coast to coast. Millions of the newly formulated vaccines have shipped out since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month approved them for ages 6 months and up. Cases started rising again [...]
When she prescribes the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy, Dr. Angela Fitch sends patients on a quest she likens to "The Hunger Games." They will have to call drugstores over several days to find one with the properly sized first dose. Then they'll do that again for their second dose, and probably the third and that's [...]
BOSTON — Boston firefighter Daniel Ranahan had heard about colleagues getting cancer but he was stunned when doctors discovered a large tumor in his chest. He was only 30 and had been in the Boston Fire Department less than a decade. Yet as he investigated his diagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma in October 2020 and sought [...]
The number of prescription opioid pills shipped in the second half of the 2010s decreased sharply even as a nationwide overdose crisis continued to deepen, according to data released earlier this week. The decline in painkiller prescriptions —dropping below the quantities sold in the mid-2000s when the overdose epidemic accelerated — happened after state and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The leading decongestant used by millions of Americans looking for relief from a stuffy nose is likely no better than a dummy pill, according to government advisers who reviewed the latest research on the long-questioned drug ingredient. Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration earlier this week voted unanimously against the effectiveness [...]
Rocks in Trader Joe's cookies. Insects in its broccoli-cheese soup. Pieces of plastic in Banquet frozen chicken strips. In recent weeks, consumers have seen high-profile food recalls for an unappetizing reason: They're contaminated with foreign objects that have no place on a dinner plate. While no one wants to bite down on stainless steel in [...]
DETROIT (AP) — The federal government is taking a step toward forcing a defiant Tennessee company to recall 52 million air bag inflators that could explode, hurl shrapnel and injure or kill people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week said it has made an initial decision that the inflators made by ARC Automotive [...]