ELBERT, Colo. — To say Brandon Patterson’s father wasn’t fully on board when he first brought up the idea of having electrodes implanted into his brain would be an understatement — and their family doesn’t mince words.

Brandon, 41, already relied on his dad for all of his daily needs, ranging from setting up the lift to move him from ...Read more

Throughout last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson vowed to protect Chicago’s public health dollars from President Donald Trump.

But behind the scenes, his health commissioner voluntarily returned tens of millions of dollars in COVID-19 grants to the federal government months before expiration — funds that could have gone to disease surveillance ...Read more

Silvana Toska was playing in a grass field with her daughters late last fall when she felt a sting on her ankle. The family had come to listen for barred and great horned owls as the sun set on a large park near their Davidson, North Carolina, home.

It was “just like a mosquito bite, nothing major, and I just scratched it,” said Toska, a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The morning after Christmas, 37-year-old Taylor Armendariz awoke in her South Jersey apartment with stomach pain and nausea like nothing she had ever experienced.

A self-described “avid” cannabis user, she had smoked before her holiday meal of beef Wellington, mashed potatoes, and ice cream-topped apple pie. “In the stoner...Read more

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I need to have a joint replacement, but I'm really nervous. What questions should I ask my orthopedic doctor?

ANSWER: Knee and hip replacements have changed so much due to advanced surgical techniques, making them far different from those even five years ago. From multiple-day hospital stays, total joint replacement has ...Read more

With each step you take, coordinated contractions in your abdominal muscles help keep you stable and upright.

Now, new research finds that those gentle changes in tension and pressure also affect your brain, and may play a role in the organ's overall health.

Imaging in humans and other animal species has long shown that the brain gently moves ...Read more

The MV Hondius, a Dutch cruise ship with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus, was on its way to the Canary Islands on May 7, 2026, after evacuating three ill passengers for treatment.

The World Health Organization confirmed the outbreak on May 4, noting a total of seven infections, with three deaths since the outbreak began in early April...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is outpacing much of the rest of the nation in cases of tuberculosis, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2025, California had 5.5 tuberculosis cases per 100,000 people on average, according to the CDC’s latest provisional tuberculosis data report, released in March.

That...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A new study from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology suggests that it is possible to treat measles infections though additional research is necessary to prove that the concept will work in humans.

Published online Thursday in the journal Cell Host & Microbe, the study identifies several Y-shaped proteins called antibodies that a...Read more

It’s tough to avoid the current hype about the health benefits of injecting peptides. Although these substances – essentially, synthetic bits of protein in solution – have long made the rounds in the fitness world, their popularity has exploded. Social media influencers, podcasters, wellness clinics and online sellers promote peptides ...Read more

Physical activity is one of the most powerful health tools people have to improve mood, energy and sleep, even after just a few sessions.

But the real superpower of an active lifestyle is what it can do for health and quality of life over time. Scientific evidence repeatedly demonstrates that physical activity reduces the risk of ...Read more

Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn’t rapidly process their visa waiver applications, which have been languishing since the fall and winter, immigration attorneys say.

The waiver program, run by the Department of Health and Human Services, allows ...Read more

Complaints about hospital food are certainly not new, and Jell-O and fruit juice are often the butt of related jokes. But the Trump administration has recently upped the ante.

It is urging the public to report hospitals and nursing homes that serve sugary drinks, nutrition shakes, or meals that it says don’t meet dietary guidelines ...Read more

MIAMI — Ozzie Echemendia’s “second chance of life” came in the form of a wire that runs from his brain all the way to his upper chest.

Echemendia is in a battle with Parkinson’s disease, a movement disorder that affects the nervous system and usually worsens over time, causing tremors and making it difficult to walk and speak. It wasn...Read more

The White House’s newly released strategy for tackling the nation’s drug and addiction crisis calls for a number of ambitious public health approaches that some experts say are laudable but will be hampered by the administration’s own actions.

The sweeping 195-page National Drug Control Strategy, published May 4, advocates for making ...Read more

In 2019, Mia Tretta, then a high school freshman at Saugus High School in Santa Clarita, California, was struck in the stomach by a round from a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun fired by a schoolmate. Two students were killed during the attack, including her best friend, and two others were injured.

When she graduated from high school, she ...Read more

If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting "988.”

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Someone in America dies by suicide every 11 minutes. It's that common. But not normal.

Humans have evolved over centuries to survive. So when people try to kill themselves, something has gone ...Read more

In an unexpected twist, President Donald Trump’s administration moved to abandon its legal fight to obtain private medical records of youth who received gender-affirming care at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Late Wednesday, a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer filed a two-sentence motion to “voluntarily dismiss” its appeal of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Eleven people have been diagnosed with measles in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania health officials said Wednesday.

After three people with measles were hospitalized in the central Pennsylvania county, state Department of Health staff conducted contact tracing in the area, located east of Harrisburg and north of Lancaster.

They ...Read more