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ROCHESTER, Minn. — It’s not unusual to have one or more family members with some form of heart disease. Nonetheless, some people may not even know they have heart disease until they experience a heart attack or stroke or are diagnosed with heart failure.

Despite the prevalence of heart disease, many people are still unclear about how ...Read more

Does fish oil truly improve heart health? How about aspirin or statins?

A newly released Cleveland Clinic online survey of 251 Florida adults found that many don’t know what can harm or improve their heart health.

While 72% of Floridians are aware that stress can negatively impact heart health, about two in five do not recognize that alcohol...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman in Wyoming was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, according to health officials who say she was likely infected by handling sickened birds in a backyard flock.

According to a statement from Wyoming's public health department, the woman is "an older adult" and has "other health conditions," which may have made her more ...Read more

ATLANTA — Flu season is well underway, and metro Atlanta hasn’t been spared.

Cases remain high, according to data from the Georgia Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But metro Atlanta doctors say it’s not too late to get vaccinated against influenza. For those who feel the flu coming on, antiviral ...Read more

Thousands of University of California healthcare, research and technical employees voted to authorize a strike, citing what they described as systemic and ongoing staffing shortages that erode patient care and hurt research operations.

The strike authorization comes amid strained negotiations between the university and University Professional...Read more

Parents across the U.S. should soon be able to determine how much lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury are in the food they feed their babies, thanks to a California law, the first of its kind, that took effect this year.

As of Jan. 1, 2025, every company that sells baby food products in California is required to test for these four ...Read more

ATLANTA — Macon State Prison has become one of the bloodiest correctional facilities in Georgia, and no one knows that better than the men and woman who work for Macon County EMS.

As the violence at the prison just south of Oglethorpe has intensified, so, too, have the calls for ambulance service. And because of those calls, the county now ...Read more

The morning of Jan. 7, Dr. Reza Ronaghi and his wife, Nasim, left their home in California's Pacific Palisades with the clothes on their backs and work on their minds. They'd been putting in a lot of hours – he as a pulmonologist, she as a pediatric dentist – so they left Harlow, their fluffy Havanese, at doggie daycare. It was just another ...Read more

We’re never too old to learn. That’s why I appreciated the kind letter from Professor Emeritus Bob Hutkins from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska.

“Thank you for your informative columns that I read regularly in the Lincoln Journal Star. The probiotics quiz was spot on except for the question ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Republican-backed bill that would bar Kentucky’s prisons and jails from paying for and providing hormone therapy to transgender inmates won approval in a legislative committee Thursday morning.

Senate Bill 2 from Senate Majority Whip Mike Wilson, R-Bowling Green, would codify into law that “if you’re incarcerated, you...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new study published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the H5N1 bird flu virus is likely circulating undetected in livestock in many parts of the country and may be infecting unaware veterinarians.

In the health agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a group of researchers from the CDC...Read more

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where she’d tried to protect her face and neck. An ambulance was on ...Read more

Caregiver stress has a way of derailing your best-laid plans. Like many people whose elderly parents fall ill, Jennifer Beard found herself catapulted into a caregiving role a couple of years ago, when her mother was sent home from the hospital with a feeding tube.

Beard, an associate professor of global health at the Boston University School ...Read more