1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1113+ words) Just a month into her tenure, CDC director Erica Schwartz is missing in action. The country is heading into respiratory virus season, and public guidance on COVID-19, flu and RSV vaccines has been muddled, at best. The worst measles epidemic…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (290+ words) INDIANAPOLIS — What counties in Indiana do Hoosiers feel the loneliest in? A new study from Mood.com — a CBD company — answers that very question. Mood.com’s study found that these are the lonelist counties in the state: The results of…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (446+ words) INDIANAPOLIS — A recent surge in mosquitoes across Central Indiana has led to a huge increase in services to get rid of them. “We’ve been busy, busy, busy,” said Capricia Turner, the owner of Mosquito Squad Plus. “Our phones have been…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (266+ words) (NewsNation) — Over the last seven years, GLP-1 medication use in children ages 8 to 11 has increased by nearly 31,000%, according to a new NYU Langone Health study. The Food and Drug Administration has not approved any GLP-1 medication for children under 12, but…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (318+ words) (NewsNation) — Two high school friends from Greenwich, Connecticut, built an app to solve a problem they both experienced firsthand: keeping track of cancer care. Brynn Forlizzi and Teddy Aaron are the co-founders of Soothe Note, an app marketed as a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (198+ words) (NewsNation) — A brain cell once thought to be an obstacle to weight loss may actually be the key to maintaining it. Scientists at Yale were studying how GLP-1s work inside the brain, specifically how their main ingredient, semaglutide, helps sustain…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) (NewsNation) — A new study has revealed that the amount of sugar consumed during the first two years of life can have lifelong effects. The study, published in PNAS in early August, focused on a group of 64,761 people born in Britain…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) (NewsNation) — At least 1 in 4 NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had a degenerative brain disease known as CTE, a new study found. CTE, which stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, has been a subject of increasing concern as researchers established that…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (205+ words) TOPEKA (KSNT) – A pharmaceutical company is recalling 3,655 thyroid tablets sold nationwide because they could be more potent than usual and may bring about health issues for people who use them. Vitruvias Therapeutics Inc. is voluntarily recalling a single lot of…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (496+ words) HARRISBURG, Pa. (WKBN) – For the first time in more than three decades, Pennsylvania has recorded fatalities linked to measles, the state health department has announced. The deaths of two Lancaster County residents have been described as measles-associated, the Pennsylvania Department…...