6+ hour, 23+ min ago   (871+ words) Colorado public health investigators have been trying since June to determine who was exposed to tuberculosis at an immigration detention center in Aurora. Six weeks after their last contact with the company running the facility, they still cannot answer that…...

9+ hour, 34+ min ago   (760+ words) Soil testing inside the country's largest residential lead cleanup site has found contamination at levels high enough to raise children's blood lead, including in yards the federal government marked as remediated two decades ago. For families with young children, the…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago   (977+ words) The idea behind radiopharmaceuticals is simple enough to explain in a sentence. Instead of aiming a radiation beam through the body and accepting damage to everything in its path, attach a radioactive particle to a molecule that seeks out cancer…...

10+ hour, 14+ min ago   (750+ words) For nearly seven decades, a company could decide on its own that a substance added to food was safe and put it into the food supply without ever telling the federal government. The Department of Health and Human Services has…...

9+ hour, 4+ min ago   (832+ words) Two oral GLP-1 medications for weight management have now been approved in the United States, removing the injection from the decision for the first time. That lowers one barrier to starting treatment without changing anything about what a safe prescribing…...

7+ hour, 14+ min ago   (1035+ words) Kratom products are now illegal to sell, possess or use in North Dakota, after the governor declared a public health emergency and ordered them off shelves with almost no notice to retailers or the people using them daily. The state…...

6+ hour, 34+ min ago   (985+ words) Maryland has recorded 50 heat-related deaths since the start of May, the highest total in any heat season in the state's recorded history and more than the 46 deaths logged in 2012. The figure comes from a Wednesday update to the Maryland Department…...

6+ hour, 44+ min ago   (1035+ words) North Carolina high school students reported better mental health and fewer risky behaviors in the state's most recent youth survey, with results returning to and in some measures exceeding where they stood before the pandemic. The 2025 North Carolina High School…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago   (932+ words) Two Connecticut hospitals owned by the same health system have accumulated more of the federal government's most serious patient safety findings than any other hospitals in the state. The finding comes from reporting by CT Mirror, which reviewed Centers for…...

8+ hour, 4+ min ago   (804+ words) Nearly 70% of the samples in the Human Cell Atlas, one of biology's flagship reference maps, carry no record of the donor's ancestry at all. Among the samples that do, people of European ancestry appear roughly six times more often than…...