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Residents of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) often pay large upfront entrance fees for the promise of lifelong housing, services and a partial refund to heirs. That promise can disappear when a community...
A surge of snow and subfreezing temperatures sweeping from the Upper Midwest into the Northeast and parts of the South has left millions of Americans facing dangerous, early-season cold. The freeze is pushing up energy...
Updated on: December 8, 2025 / 10:36 AM EST / CBS News Wegmans is recalling specific packages of its Deluxe Mixed Nuts Unsalted after routine supplier testing identified Salmonella in a lot of raw pistachios, the Food...
A new clinical trial is testing whether popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications can be adapted for cats. San Francisco-based Okava Pharmaceuticals has begun MEOW-1, a study that will place a small subcutaneous implant...
A panel chosen by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted to recommend ending the CDC’s long-standing guidance that called for routine hepatitis B vaccination for newborns. The Advisory Committee on Immunization...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee meets Thursday for the first of two days of discussions on childhood vaccine schedules and recommendations. The main focus is the hepatitis B...
Twelve former commissioners and acting commissioners of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — appointed by presidents of both parties — sharply challenged recent internal assertions by the agency’s current vaccine...
Federal officials pledged "radical transparency" for a $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, but many states are keeping full applications out of public view even as project summaries appear online.
A team of students at Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta used CRISPR-based methods to develop a prototype that could detect Lyme disease far earlier than current tests. Their project, created for the international...
A group of students from Lambert High School in suburban Atlanta drew international attention at the iGEM synthetic biology competition in Paris by building CRISPR-based approaches to both detect and treat Lyme disease....
A team of students from Lambert High School, a suburban Atlanta public school, used CRISPR tools to develop a rapid diagnostic concept and a modeled treatment strategy for Lyme disease as part of their entry in iGEM...
The holidays bring together family and friends, but they can also increase stress, sadness, and worry for many people. Clinical psychologist Dr. Joshua Coleman explains practical ways to protect your mental health...
