Throughout his 2023 mayoral campaign, Brandon Johnson championed a progressive vision of sending teams of mental health clinicians instead of police officers to help people suffering from psychiatric emergencies.

But since he took office and started phasing cops out of the city’s Crisis Assistance Response and Engagement program, those teams ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- A group of Rutgers researchers led by neuroscientist Ioana Carcea want to learn more about how women’s brains are affected by pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and other hormonal changes that they say have been under studied.

The Women’s Brain Health Initiative at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute in Piscataway will focus ...Read more

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden's life.

Her earliest memory is of standing on the passenger seat of her dad's car as a toddler, wearing a peach-colored blouse, while he drove from their Kentucky home to Florida to pick up drugs. On a stop for a burger, she met Ronald McDonald...Read more

Sunny days invite outdoor family fun. When heading out with your little ones, keep in mind that babies need extra protection from sunburn. With a few simple precautions, you can help keep their skin healthy now and in the future.

Babies are more at risk of sunburn because their skin is thinner and more delicate than adult skin. They can burn ...Read more

Dozens of bees crawled along the frame in Frances Ratay’s hands as she looked down at the colony in awe.

The 70-year-old retiree from South Philadelphia ordinarily would avoid bees out of fear, but this spring she suited up for a study on therapeutic beekeeping at the Half Mad Honey apiary in the Navy Yard. Led by Temple University ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland residents who buy health insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace could see higher premiums next year, with insurers requesting an average rate increase of 13.7% for 2027, according to filings submitted to the Maryland Insurance Administration.

The proposed increases would affect about 482,000 Marylanders ...Read more

One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who was assigned female at birth, told his parents he was a boy — and would be using he/him pronouns.

"OK, cool," his mother, J, remembered saying. (J asked to be identified by only her first initial, and Bug by his nickname, ...Read more

As more patients recover from the world’s largest recorded Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, doctors are beginning to piece together how the rare virus behaves — offering the clearest picture yet of one of the disease’s least-studied strains.

The number of recoveries reported by Congolese health authorities almost doubled in a week, rising to ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 25, 2026, that the Trump administration may revoke the temporary protected status of 350,000 Haitians.

This is not the first time a legal challenge to TPS has held Haitians’ future in the balance: During his first administration, President Donald Trump attempted to terminate Haitian TPS but was ...Read more

Kate Dineen assumed she would always have access to reproductive healthcare because of where she lived. It came as a shock when she was denied an abortion in 2021 because of gestational limits to the procedure in Massachusetts law.

Dineen was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, the third trimester, when a routine ultrasound detected a problem with the...Read more

Long ago, when most Americans left the house for mass entertainment, they flocked to carnivals that crisscrossed the country to delight small towns and big cities. Shows typically included a barker whose steady stream of superfluous oratory enticed folks to spend their hard-earned cash on sometimes dubious performances.

Too often today, our ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Monica Carter, a nurse practitioner specializing in obstetrics and gynecology, appears on a TikTok screen, saying she is seeing so much “trich” in her clinic.

Trichomonas is a sexually transmitted infection caused by a parasite, not a virus, she tells her 15,000 followers.

“It is supercurable, and it’s rampant...Read more

Pennsylvania health officials have now detected measles cases in York and Northumberland Counties as cases in Lancaster County, the center of an ongoing outbreak, continued to rise.

And the state health department is now recommending early measles vaccinations for infants beginning at six months in affected areas in an effort to protect them ...Read more

Healthcare across rural America is in crisis.

In the past two decades, close to 200 rural hospitals have closed – 44 since 2020 alone. Hundreds more have cut much-needed health services, such as maternity care and chemotherapy treatments. Nearly half are losing money on their day-to-day operations, putting them at risk of closure....Read more

Scientists racing to develop potential vaccines and treatments against a deadly Ebola outbreak are having to do so without a viable sample of the virus, highlighting growing disputes over pathogen sharing and the difficulty of moving infectious materials across borders for research.

More than a month after the outbreak was identified in ...Read more

Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain.

But this year, because of a new Medicare program, Curry has traveled a little more often.

In ...Read more

Bryce Ramsey of Madison, Mississippi, was 33 when she was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Upon noticing blood in her stool, she blamed the hemorrhoids she’d developed after delivering her son eight years earlier.

Ramsey didn’t initially link her symptoms to cancer.

“But I had just kind of made a deal with myself because the blood was ...Read more

Amid a worsening flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, the U.S. Air Force, Army and Navy are once again requiring new recruits to get vaccinated against the influenza virus, according to ABC News. The move comes two months after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth rescinded the U.S. military’s mandate that they do so....Read more