NEW YORK — The Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side claimed its fifth life Tuesday, city Health Commissioner Alister Martin said.

“We are saddened to share that a fifth individual has passed away due to the Legionnaires’ disease cluster on the Upper East Side,” Martin said on X. “Our hearts are with their ...Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false positive. Not only that, but the government still hadn’t produced a laboratory result connecting the company’s lettuce to the outbreak.

The ...Read more

A newly released study of children has connected the extra stress of an “unpredictable” environment early on to depression, obesity and mental health issues, factors that previously weren’t always included in traditional childhood risk screenings, its authors said.

Researchers from UC Irvine and Chapman University and two doctors from ...Read more

NEW YORK — Council Speaker Julie Menin bashed the Mamdani administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Tuesday, after a fourth New Yorker died from the disease.

Menin argued the city moved too slowly in response to the outbreak and said that more should have been done to proactively clean building cooling towers in ...Read more

NEW YORK — A fourth New Yorker has died due to the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, city Health Commissioner Alistair Martin said Monday.

“We mourn their passing, and our thoughts are with their family and loved ones,” Martin wrote on social media. A department spokesperson declined to share further details.

More than 70 people have ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan since June 22 rose to 6,571 as of Tuesday morning, a 6.9% increase over Monday's case count of 6,148.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 423 additional cases of cyclosporiasis on Tuesday.

The new cases come as the Food and Drug Administration continues to ...Read more

In the 108-year history of daylight saving time in the United States, the country has three times moved to institute it year-round: during each of the two world wars and in 1973-74.

Now, after a 2022 attempt to reintroduce this policy floundered, the U.S. House of Representatives on July 14, 2026, passed the Sunshine Protection Act, ...Read more

Discharge day in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, should feel like a finish line. After weeks or months of monitors, alarms, oxygen, feeding tubes, blood tests and waiting, a family can finally take their baby home.

As a neonatologist, I know how much work it takes to get that baby there. Their lungs have grown stronger. ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Missouri healthcare advocate Leslie Ortbals and her husband want to start a family, but she worries they can’t afford it. The 27-year-old said she takes 10 medications daily to manage multiple chronic illnesses.

Now she worries the cost of those drugs could rise — not because of price increases, but because of a tax system ...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've seen emergency defibrillators in public places, but I've also heard that some people need to wear them or have them implanted for heart rhythm problems. Can you explain the differences?

ANSWER: Pacemakers and defibrillators are devices that help manage heart rhythm problems, but they work differently.

A pacemaker helps ...Read more

Alice Thornton has spent more than two decades treating people living with HIV in Lexington, Kentucky.

Her team tends to “cringe” anytime they hear about patients having to fill out lots of paperwork, like when applying for Social Security Disability payments, because it can be a difficult, burdensome process.

Thornton tries to support her...Read more

How low is too low when it comes to testosterone levels? When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in July 2026 that U.S. service members ages 30 and older will have their testosterone tested every year, neither he nor the Pentagon specified what level of the hormone would be considered “low” enough to require treatment – a telling ...Read more

The number of former servicemembers enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs system who have had traumatic brain injuries spiked considerably in the last four years on record, new data from the department shows.

The figures, which were posted on the VA website last week, demonstrate that the number of reported TBI instances in the VA’s ...Read more

Updated statewide data shows the total confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis in Virginia have more than doubled the number of cases identified previously, but the state is still not experiencing an “outbreak,” according to the Virginia Department of Health.

Virginia has 79 confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis, the illness stemming from a ...Read more

A recent sample of lettuce from Taylor Farms that detected the cyclosporiasis parasite was a false positive, federal officials say, but there is still "overwhelming" data to support the California-based company's current recall of produce amid the outbreak.

On X, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration stated, "To clarify, this false positive lab...Read more

Federal regulators and the parent company of global salad producer Taylor Farms made headlines — and sowed confusion — this week after announcing that a mistake was made and that a lettuce sample from the supplier had not actually tested positive for the parasite that’s sending thousands of people to the bathroom with explosive diarrhea.

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new daily pill that lowers levels of dangerous cholesterol. The pill is expected to boost compliance rates compared to previously used medications, according to a Thursday news release from the University of Maryland Medical System.

About a quarter of adults in the United States have ...Read more

Every year, the global pharmaceutical industry produces trillions of doses of medications. Manufacturing these drugs involves several stages, and the chance of contamination increases with every step.

Thus, before a single drop of any drug can be given to a patient, it must be sterilized. In my work as a researcher in pharmaceutical ...Read more

Megan (not her real name) had always taken pride in her ability to meet someone once and remember their name. Then came a breast cancer diagnosis in her 40s, chemotherapy, and the brain fog that followed. She struggled to focus. She couldn’t remember names, or where she placed her keys or phone. Long, wordy instructions were a nightmare....Read more

The tiniest menace of summer doesn’t care if you’re hiking through the woods, walking the dog or pulling weeds in your backyard.

It just wants a ride and a meal.

As ticks spread into new parts of the country and emergency room visits for tick bites climb higher than usual, states are scrambling to monitor where the pests are showing up, ...Read more