CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A central North Carolina teenager who contracted a brain-eating amoeba has died.

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services confirmed that the teenager passed away on Monday and extended condolences to his family and community.

Naegleria fowleri is a single-celled organism found in fresh water that destroys ...Read more

As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I’m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any mental health treatment before the COVID-19 pandemic: the stay-at-home mother without any childcare; the college student on a rural campus, many miles away from home or a ...Read more

In the summer of 2024, Emilie and Justin Solomon found themselves on a top-secret mission in Greece.

Their family and friends thought the adventure-loving couple was on another jet-setting vacation, but they were keeping something else under wraps: They had turned off their phone locations to hide visits to a Greek clinic where they were trying...Read more

MILLVILLE, Pa. — In an open field, arrows whizzed through the humid June air and struck their targets. Campers and counselors cheered.

It was archery hour at Camp Cranium. Operations director Drew Meyer watched, a few tears escaping from behind his dark sunglasses.

“They will surprise you, like, flat out,” he said of the campers, who ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Two measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania last week were omitted from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest measles outbreak update, continuing an increasingly political clash over the nature of the deaths announced by the state last week.

The two deaths reported by Pennsylvania — the first in the ...Read more

Does it feel like Salmonella is contaminating everything these days? From the food you eat and the pets you love to the surfaces you touch and the recreational areas you enjoy, this deadly bacterium can be found almost everywhere.

As of August 2026, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 10 outbreaks related ...Read more

Following an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Aug. 3, 2026, Aaron Rodgers, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, received attention for calling Dr. Anthony Fauci an “absolute coward” and “criminal.” Rodgers’ comments were in response to Fauci invoking his Fifth Amendment rights at a congressional hearing on pandemic-era ...Read more

Navigating concerns of low breast milk supply can be a source of stress for some families. Here are a few steps that can help if you're looking to boost your milk supply, whether you are exclusively nursing your infant or supplementing with formula or solid foods.

All mothers share the concern about their milk being enough for their baby. If ...Read more

In January, Jeff La Marca got a prescription for the popular weight loss drug Zepbound. But he couldn’t afford the $750 monthly price tag.

Then Medicare launched an 18-month pilot program that offers GLP-1 medications to some enrollees for only $50 a month. La Marca thought he might finally be able to afford the drug.

“I thought, ‘Thank ...Read more

Last year, Stephanie Halver’s primary care doctor consulted a risk assessment tool to calculate her chances of one day developing breast cancer. Halver, now 43, remembered the likelihood “popped up really high.”

That’s partly because Halver’s mother and aunt have had breast cancer. Her age and dense breast tissue also put her at ...Read more

On a recent morning, medical professionals huddled around banks of computer monitors like weather forecasters tracking a developing hurricane, though bed occupancy rates over 90% were the pressing threat rather than rising atmospheric pressure over the Pacific.

Opened in June, the new mission control center at UC San Diego Health pulls together...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Ruby Hobbs-Leffler felt things with an intensity that even a smart little girl with a big vocabulary couldn't put into words.

Life was an onslaught of bright lights, loud noises, intolerable textures and tastes. Feelings bubbled up uncontrollably: inconsolable howls in infancy, classroom meltdowns in childhood, rages in ...Read more

The latest political battleground between California and the Trump administration over transgender youth is a few million dollars annually for gender-affirming care.

Upcoming cuts to federal funding for gender-affirming health care will apply to a small fraction of transgender kids and teens in California. The impact will be far short of U.S. ...Read more

WHITE MESA, Utah — On a hot April day, Malcolm Lehi maneuvered his Jeep Wrangler over a rough dirt road past junipers and sagebrush in search of Entrance Spring on land long connected to his tribe, the Ute Mountain Ute.

The cool, mossy spring lies just across the highway from White Mesa Mill, the nation’s only remaining conventional uranium...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — While on a 25-mile campaign walk from Taylor, Texas, to Round Rock, Texas, James Talarico got fatigued and nauseous and went to the emergency room the next morning. There he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. When Talarico picked up his 30-day supply of insulin, he said it cost him $684.

Talarico’s diagnosis sparked ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two more New Yorkers have died of Legionnaires’ disease, raising the death toll from this summer’s Upper East Side outbreak to eleven, as city officials say they have stopped the virus in its tracks.

NYC Health Commissioner Alister Martin announced the two additional deaths on X, while adding that “there is no evidence of ...Read more

Gov. Josh Shapiro came to the Philadelphia suburbs on Friday morning to announce a new investment in a local police department. But the first question he fielded at a news conference concerned the growing confusion and political intrigue surrounding his administration’s response to two deaths associated with the state’s spiraling measles ...Read more

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Carlos A. grew up in a family on Medicaid, which made healthcare an afterthought since the public insurance is free for low-income enrollees. But when he received a raise two years ago, he found himself earning too much to qualify for the safety net program. And when he browsed Covered California plans, he found that ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a central North Carolina teenager infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba is sharing the family’s story on a GoFundMe page to help with their medical and related expenses.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that a teen was infected by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba found in ...Read more

You’ve probably heard it for years, every time you get a prescription for antibiotics: “Make sure to take all the pills.”

Traditionally, clinicians have given two reasons for these strict instructions: So the infection doesn’t come back, and so you don’t end up with bugs so hearty that antibiotics can’t kill them.

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