13+ hour, 1+ min ago   (724+ words) New York City health officials have ordered 10 South Bronx cooling towers to be drained, cleaned, and disinfected by Monday after preliminary testing detected Legionella bacteria, and the community cluster in Melrose and Morrisania has grown to nine cases with one…...

13+ hour, 8+ min ago   (685+ words) A 40-year-old woman from Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, died Saturday from complications associated with measles, county Coroner Greg Furlong confirmed. It is the third measles-related death reported in the state this year and the first outside Lancaster County. Furlong said the…...

4+ day, 43+ min ago   (843+ words) He was a healthy 10-month-old until the day he ate swordfish. Afterward, his mother noticed an intense smell like rotting fish, coming mostly from his head and hands. It came back when he ate other kinds of fish, and a…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (882+ words) A Salmonella outbreak linked to broccoli sprouts from an Idaho grower has sickened 22 people in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Washington, and laboratory testing has matched a package of the sprouts to the illnesses. The CDC and the FDA announced the…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (570+ words) Plastic suction devices marketed to rescue choking victims are arriving in American school cafeterias this fall under new state laws, and the agency that regulates medical devices still says they should not be the first thing anyone reaches for. The…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (938+ words) Babies grew at the same rate whether or not their mothers received the tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis vaccine during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, according to an analysis of 42,758 electronic health records published this week in the journal Vaccine. The finding…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (711+ words) For American readers, the practical stake is narrow but real. Three infections tied to this outbreak have already been treated outside Africa, including two U.S. citizens who were medically evacuated to Germany. Whether that pattern stays rare depends heavily on how…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (676+ words) A late-season heat event is holding across a wide stretch of the country, and forecasters have put Extreme Heat Warnings in place from the Arizona deserts to northwest Arkansas. The western warnings run through Thursday evening in most areas and…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1010+ words) Federal health officials have closed the multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to recalled shell eggs, and the final tally is considerably larger than the one the public last saw. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted its final outbreak update…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (819+ words) American adults who received an RSV vaccine in the past two or three years are now asking their doctors a simple question: do I need another one? An independent review of the evidence published this month says the science cannot…...