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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on Charlotte’s light rail has rekindled conversations about the failures of America’s criminal justice system.

But some Charlotte advocates say an important component is being left out of the conversation: mental health.

Fonda Bryant, a Charlotte area mental health advocate, said...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As fall approaches, it’s time to start preparing for the start of flu season as well.

Influenza can spread any time of year, but typically increases in fall and winter in the U.S., according to the California Department of Public Health.

And COVID-19 cases — as well as the new variant — are once again on the rise ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- The first time the seemingly healthy woman gave birth, she went into heart failure. She recovered and went on to deliver her second child a few years later. Doctors cleared the woman to go home with her newborn.

But within months, the woman in her early 20s was rushed back to the hospital, again in heart failure, and ultimately ...Read more

HELENA, Mont. — In 2023, a group of 16 young Montanans won a much-heralded climate change case that said the state had deprived them of a “clean and healthful environment,” a right enshrined in Montana’s constitution.

Their victory in Held v. Montana , later upheld by the state Supreme Court, resounded across the country, showing that ...Read more

Major changes are coming to health insurance in Colorado over the next two years, but members of the state’s delegation in Congress are pitching bills that would dampen the impacts of those disruptions to health care.

H.R. 1, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” will reduce the number of people covered by Medicaid by adding work ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. -- With limited treatment options for stroke patients available, two UConn researchers are developing an experimental drug that is capable of protecting the brain and improving recovery after a cerebral vascular accident also known as a brain attack.

Rajkumar Verma, assistant professor at UConn Health who leads a research ...Read more

A recent column on hydrogen water brought a well-deserved slap on the wrist from two experts.

Rodney H. from Texas writes (with a few of my added comments): “Sorry about being picky, but as a retired chemist, I just wanted to set the record straight about the differences between atoms and molecules. I know what you're thinking...oh no, here ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo shocked America’s medical establishment last week when they said they would try to remove requirements that kids get vaccinated to attend school.

They said it is a matter of medical ethics — a philosophical belief that the government shouldn’t require people to put things in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With the cold and flu season approaching, Maryland health officials issued guidance Wednesday on who may receive COVID-19 vaccines and whether insurance will cover the shots — a shifting landscape a top regulator described as “confusing.”

“I very much appreciate that it’s confusing,” Maryland Insurance Commissioner ...Read more

Pharmacies in Black and Latino neighborhoods are less likely to dispense buprenorphine — one of the main treatments for opioid use disorder — even though people of color are more likely to die from opioid overdoses.

The drug helps reduce cravings for opioids and the likelihood of a fatal overdose.

While the nation as a whole has seen ...Read more

Rebecca Kasen has seen and heard things in recent years in and around Michigan’s capital city that she never would have expected.

“It’s a very weird time in our lives,” said Kasen, executive director of the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing.

Last November, a group of people were captured on surveillance video early one morning ...Read more

Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insurance, making the health fair a major source of free medical care in South Texas for more than 25 years.

Until this ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago’s average life expectancy bounced back to 78.7 years in 2023, nearly hitting its prepandemic peak — though large gaps remain between races and neighborhoods, according to the city health department.

City health officials attributed the overall improvement to a drop in COVID-19 deaths, after leaving the worst years of the...Read more