Confirmed Measles Cases by County in 2019 Most cases in Clark County occurred in unimmunized children under 10 years old. Outbreaks linked to Orthodox Jewish communities in New York spread to Michigan. Hillsborough Orange, Westchester, Sullivan Butte, Calaveras, Shasta, Tehama…
Ever since its premiere, on March 31, 2017, the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” about a teenage girl’s suicide, has alarmed many health experts, who believe it glamorizes the topic for some young people. The show also has impressed critics,…
With more and more common medications losing their ability to fight dangerous infections, and few new drugs in the pipeline, the world is facing an imminent crisis that could lead to millions of deaths, a surge in global poverty and…
ImageA majority of American doctors go more than a week before washing white coats. Seventeen percent go more than a month.CreditRegis Duvignau/Reuters A recent study of patients at 10 academic hospitals in the United States found that just over half…
I was packing up at the end of a family vacation in Florida when my back went into an excruciating spasm unrelieved by a fistful of pain medication. As my twin sons, then 8 years old, wheeled me through the…
COLUMBIA, S.C. — For months, Juul Labs has had a clear, unwavering message for officials in Washington: The e-cigarette giant is committed to doing all it can to keep its hugely popular vaping products away from teenagers. But here in…
More than 700 students and staff members at two California universities were under quarantine on Friday — an increase of about 400 from the day before — as officials continued steps to curb the potential spread of measles after an…
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When Matt Cronin worked in customer service at Nurx, a San Francisco start-up that sells prescription drugs online, one of his jobs was to manage the office’s inventory of birth control pills. The pills were kept in the pockets of…
ImageCreditLizzie Gill It happened about a year ago. I stepped off the subway and spotted an ad on the station wall for a food delivery service. It read: “When you want a whole cake to yourself because you’re turning 30,…
