Health

Other companies, including Walgreens, Walmart and Amazon, are opening or investing in doctor offices.

A 3-year-old boy contracted the Powassan virus, a tick-borne illness, that led to him being hospitalized. Here’s six facts about the rare illness from experts.

President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak. The White House said Biden will announce Tuesday that he has tapped Robert Fenton, who helped lead FEMA’s mass vacci...

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A common childhood virus called parechovirus, which can cause severe illness in infants younger than 3 months, is spreading in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a health alert issued Tuesday.

Chicago’s monkeypox cases have hiked past 300, and the city’s health department is urging the public to take added precautions to prevent the spread of the virus.

Top U.S. health officials say the country’s monkeypox outbreak can still be stopped despite rising case numbers and limited vaccine supplies.

As monkeypox cases surpass 300 and continue to rise in Chicago, the city’s healthcare officials announced it will focus immunization efforts to individuals who are at high risk for the virus.

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Congress and local authorities need to do more to help end the growing monkeypox outbreak.

The bacteria was found on the property of a Mississippi man who had come down with the disease, melioidosis. Officials don’t know how long it had been there, but they say it likely is occurring in other areas along the Gulf Coast.

A hospital’s push to screen firefighters for lung cancer because of their increased risk has prompted a partnership to offer CT scans to Chicago firefighters. A retired firefighter says he’s proof that the partnership is saving lives. NBC 5’s Lauren Petty reports.

One case involved a man with cancer who underwent a specialized stem cell transplant; the other involved a woman who received immune-boosting therapies as part of a clinical trial.

COVID super dodgers, people who have never been infected with COVID-19, are becoming an even more exclusive club now that the BA.5 omicron subvariant has taken over.