Centuries late, Native American remains returned for reburial
Illinois State Museum PHOTO COURTESY OF WIKIPEDIA SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) – For centuries, Europeans carving up the prairie to suit their own idea of settlement …
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Updated covid shots are coming
WASHINGTON (AP) – Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots. And this fall, the first vaccines for …
Patients need doctors who look like them, to treat them
STOCK PHOTO DETROIT (AP) – Dr. Starling Tolliver knew she wanted to become a doctor. Yet, as a Black girl growing up in Akron, Ohio, …
Prostate cancer screening saves lives, especially among Black men
Prostate cancer screening saves lives, especially among Black men STOCK PHOTO ATLANTA, GA – Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed among …
Workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent protection in the US
STOCK PHOTO RENO, Nev. (AP) – Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in …
Study suggests links between fracking and asthma, lymphoma in children
STOCK PHOTO HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a …
Water is refreshing in the heat, right? In parts of Florida this past week, not so much
Miami beaches STOCK PHOTO KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (AP) – In the sweltering summer heat, nobody tries to cool off by jumping into a hot tub. …
New drug to protect babies and toddlers from RSV gets FDA approval
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials on Monday approved the first long-acting drug to protect babies and toddlers against a respiratory virus that sends tens of …
Second Alzheimer’s drug in pipeline can slow the disease by a few months but with brain swelling, bleeding risks
WASHINGTON (AP) – Another experimental Alzheimer’s drug can modestly slow patients’ inevitable worsening by about four to seven months, researchers reported Monday. Eli Lilly and …
Smoke from Canada wildfires increasing health risks in Black and poorer U.S. communities
DETROIT (AP) – Smoky air from Canada’s wildfires shrouded broad swaths of the U. S. from Minnesota to New York and Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting …