DENVER (AP) — Christian Glass was a geology geek, a painter and a young man beset by a mental-health crisis when he called 911 for help getting his car unstuck in a Colorado mountain town last year. Convinced that supernatural beings were after him, he balked when sheriff's deputies told him to get out of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators earlier this week approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant women so their babies will be born with protection against the scary respiratory infection. RSV is known for filling hospitals with wheezing babies every fall and winter. The Food and Drug Administration cleared Pfizer's maternal vaccination to guard against a [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As millions of Medicaid recipients face the potential loss of health coverage for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic, state call centers are getting inundated with questions from people needing help. In some cases, federal officials say, it's taking too long to get answers. Nearly one-third of the states have [...]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Children who lived close to natural gas wells in western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer and nearby residents of all ages had an increased chance of severe asthma reactions, researchers said in reports released earlier this week. The taxpayer-funded research by the University of [...]
Patients who take blockbuster drugs like Wegovy or Ozempic for weight loss may face life-threatening complications if they need surgery or other procedures that require empty stomachs for anesthesia. This summer's guidance to halt the medication for up to a week may not go far enough, either. Some anesthesiologists in the United States and Canada [...]
Some private insurers are balking at paying for the first drug fully approved to slow mental decline in Alzheimer’s patients. Insurers selling coverage in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and New York, among other states, told The Associated Press they won’t cover Leqembi with insurance offered on the individual market and through employers because they still see [...]
WASHINGTON — The Air Force has detected unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen at underground launch control centers at a Montana nuclear missile base where a striking number of men and women have reported cancer diagnoses. A new cleanup effort has been ordered. The discovery "is the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. [...]
Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is far lower than previous spikes. For the [...]
Word spread through an Oregon hospital last month that a visitor was causing trouble in the maternity ward. Nurses were warned the man might try to abduct his partner's newborn. Hours later, the visitor opened fire, killing a security guard and sending patients, nurses and doctors scrambling for cover. The shooting at Legacy Good Samaritan [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicole Leger always thought of the burn pits at military bases in Afghanistan as more like campfires than health hazards. Ordered to dispose of sensitive documents, she would toss the paperwork into the flames while catching up with fellow soldiers, moments of quiet bonding that provided a respite from her riskier work [...]