Health

Maria sits down with style icon Gretta Monahan and Dr. Charlotte Kuperwasser about breast cancer awareness and prevention.

We all have a special woman in our life; a mother, sister, aunt, friend, daughter and did you know that breast cancer is affecting younger women at higher rates? In this episode of Mom2Mom, Maria gets real about the “BIG C” with life-changing information about breast cancer and prevention.  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends that people ages 65 and up and those with weakened immune systems get a second dose of the 2024-25 Covid vaccine six months after their first dose, NBC News reports.

Clocks fall back at 2 a.m. Sunday. Extra sleep is nice, but the extra darkness can take a toll on your mental health.

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Open enrollment season is here. It’s a time to review, renew or change your health insurance plans for the coming year. But explore with caution. Scammers are out there, hoping to trick you into giving up your personal information.  “There are scam artists targeting people, unfortunately,” said Paula Fleming with the Better Business Bureau. Every year, people fall victim...

Every year at open enrollment time, people fall victim to fake insurance representatives, phishing emails and fraudulent offers that look like legitimate plans. Here’s tips for making sure you’re talking to a legitimate health insurance representative.

The baby powder was first recalled in September.

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu.

Fresh, slivered onions on the restaurant chain’s Quarter Pounders “are the likely source” of the outbreak, the agency said Wednesday.

The outbreak, likely linked to slivered onions on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, joins a list of other E. coli incidents from fresh produce, especially precut, pre-washed fruits and vegetables.

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons.

An international group of health experts concluded that existing regulations globally are insufficient to protect the public from the potential harms of widely accessible gambling.

Even as cases of H5N1 virus among animals and people are rising in the U.S., there’s no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

New standards from the Environmental Protection Agency are aimed at protecting children from exposure to lead paint.

The McDonald’s E. Coli outbreak has been linked to food served in 10 states, including several in the West and Midwest.

Four cases in Washington farmworkers are the latest in a drumbeat of human infections across the U.S. as the virus continues to spread among farm animals.

An E. coli outbreak has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in multiple states.

The substance has been named in high profile celebrity cases.

People can be born with no sense of smell, a condition called anosmia, or they can acquire it, as has been the case with many who had a Covid infection.

Olympic gold medal cyclist Chris Hoy is revealing he has terminal cancer. The 48-year-old British athlete shared in an Oct. 19 interview with The Sunday Times that doctors have given him two to four years to live.