Subscription-based care moves beyond peddling birth control and helping with hair loss
Need help losing weight or handling depression? How about a pill that lowers cholesterol and treats erectile dysfunction?Online subscription services for care have grown...
Lose a limb or risk death? Growing numbers among Gaza’s thousands of war-wounded face...
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The doctors gave Shaimaa Nabahin an impossible choice: lose your left leg or risk death.The 22-year-old had been...
Hawaii announces first recipients of student loan payment program for health care workers
HONOLULU (AP) — The state has announced the first recipients of a program aimed at helping medical professionals pay off student loans in exchange...
FDA says fake Ozempic shots are being sold through some legitimate sources
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it has seized “thousands of units” of counterfeit Ozempic, the diabetes drug widely used for weight loss,...
UN health agency cites tenfold increase in reported cases of dengue over the last...
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency said Friday that reported cases of dengue globally increased tenfold over the last generation, with climate change...
Pharmacist refused emergency contraception prescription. Court to decide if that was discrimination
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for a woman who was denied emergency contraception in 2019 told the Minnesota Court of Appeals Thursday that the pharmacist...
Cat-owner duo in Ohio shares amputee journey while helping others through animal therapy
TROY, Ohio (AP) — Each morning when she wakes up, Juanita Mengel removes the silicone liner of her prosthetic leg out from under a...
Custom made by Tulane students, mobility chairs help special needs toddlers get moving
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — At 19 months old, Elijah Jack, born with no femur bone in one leg and a short femur in the...
Homeless people who died on US streets are increasingly remembered at winter solstice gatherings
PHOENIX (AP) — With his gap-tooth smile, hip-hop routines and volunteer work for a food charity, Roosevelt White III was well known in the...
Choking smog lands Sarajevo at top of Swiss index of most polluted cities for...
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo has been intermittently engulfed in a toxic haze since the start of December, with air...