Diseases and conditions

U.S. health advisers are urging a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer19 May 2022, 21:18• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this articleKids ages 5 to 11 should…

A new study says cancer deaths rates have steadily declined among Black people but remain higher than in other racial and ethnic groupsBy LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer19 May 2022, 17:41• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail…

In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 “code blue” incidents — an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that…

Health officials in Spain have reported seven cases of monkeypox and Portugal updated its number of confirmed cases to 14By ASHIFA KASSAM and BARRY HATTON Associated Press19 May 2022, 14:59• 3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail…

LONDON -- European and American health authorities have identified a number of cases monkeypox in recent days, mostly in young men. It's a surprising outbreak of disease that rarely appears outside Africa.Health officials around the world…

The head of the Food and Drug Administration is facing congressional lawmakers for the first time over the national shortage of baby formulaBy MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer19 May 2022, 13:43• 4 min readShare to FacebookShare to…

The World Health Organization has granted an emergency use authorization for the coronavirus vaccine made by China’s CanSino BiologicsByThe Associated Press19 May 2022, 12:39• 2 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this…

The number of coronavirus deaths globally dropped by about 21% in the past week while cases rose in most parts of the world, according to the World Health OrganizationByThe Associated Press19 May 2022, 10:37• 3 min readShare to…

European health officials say nearly 270 cases of salmonella infection linked to chocolate Easter eggs have now been reported throughout Europe and in North America, the vast majority in childrenByThe Associated Press19 May 2022, 08:57• 2…

SEOUL, South Korea -- On a recent nighttime visit to a drugstore, a double-masked Kim Jong Un lamented the slow delivery of medicine. Separately, the North Korean leader's lieutenants have quarantined hundreds of thousands of…