Category: HEALTH

Johnston was the first medical director of the nonprofit clinic for teens, which ruffled feathers when it opened in 1992.

Public health experts are warning of a disease transmitted by fleas after recent increases in Los Angeles County and in Texas, along with at least three deaths associated with the illness. Reported flea-borne typhus cases in Los Angeles County increased more than fivefold over roughly the past …

UNC’s strong response to mental health issues has taken a turn that some mental health experts say is a wrong direction. | Ned Barnett

With trees to climb, prairie grass to run through and boulders to jump off, the new playground at Colene Hoose Elementary School in Normal, Illinois, isn’t your normal schoolyard. “There’s an archetype in our heads when we think of a playground,” says Adam Bienenstock, whose company, Bienenstock …

“The world is going to be really different really soon — we’re trying to get ahead of that curve and do it responsibly,” an executive said.

“The world is going to be really different really soon — we’re trying to get ahead of that curve and do it responsibly,” an executive said.

City’s officers responding to close to 1,500 mental health crisis calls in 2022, more than double the number in 2020.

City’s officers responding to close to 1,500 mental health crisis calls in 2022, more than double the number in 2020.

Growing evidence suggests that leprosy is endemic to central Florida, according to a report recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Authors of the research letter, which was published in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, stated that Florida has seen an …

Growing evidence suggests that leprosy is endemic to central Florida, according to a report recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Authors of the research letter, which was published in the CDC’s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, stated that Florida has seen an …