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A flesh-eating bacteria found in warm coastal waters is responsible for at least five deaths so far this year in Louisiana, state health officials reported Thursday.
A Colorado lab researching the ground-squirrels comes up with an innovative way to raise money after funding cuts.
More than 900 people in Washtenaw County, Michigan, have been sickened with cyclosporiasis since mid-June. Linda Kim, a public health nurse, has called more than 100 of them. Almost everyone has said the same thing: It’s excruciating, and one of the worst illnesses they’ve experienced.
The Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago. Here’s how we did it.
The agency spent hundreds of millions on lead remediation in Omaha, Nebraska, home of the nation’s largest residential Superfund site. New soil tests by the Flatwater Free Press and ProPublica show that many yards still have harmful levels of lead.
More animals are being seen near a community building because of an Illinois Tollway project, an official said.
Advocates for the reopening of Norwood Hospital marked a long-awaited step in that process following the passage of legislation in the Massachusetts Legislature last week – while noting the "long road" still ahead for the community hospital.
Massachusetts is setting out to lower health care costs with steps like investing more state resources in primary care, supporting nursing recruitment, standardize out-of-network service rates and more, Gov. Maura Healey announced Monday among the first set of the state's commissioned recommendations.
Two Michigan residents who had "significant underlying health conditions" have died after contracting cyclosporiasis, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.
More than 11,000 cases of the foodborne illness have been confirmed in the state and 193 people have been hospitalized since early May.
Judges have been defaulting to denying pregnant women divorces until after the baby is born.
The CDC has tracked reports of illness in 45 states, and Michigan has reported two deaths.