Health

• Double your pleasure, double your fun: it's National Chewing Gum Day!
• Flight for Life breaks ground on bigger, permanent facility in Burlington
• New study on drug 'Lecanemab' shows promise for Alzheimer's disease treatment
• US sees increase in respiratory infections that can lead to paralysis in children, CDC data shows
• 'Take care of yourself': EKG designer catches own heart blockage with handheld KardiaMobile device
• Panel recommends anxiety screenings for most adults, linking mental health care with primary care
• Milwaukee-based medical college receives $5 million to combat high suicide rates
• Local podcast bridges gap between doctors and diverse communities
• Don't cook chicken in NyQuil: FDA warns about dangerous social media challenges
• Coronavirus fall update with UW-Health
• New Alzheimer's diagnoses more common among seniors who have had Covid-19, study finds
• Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin tests positive for COVID-19
• School Bulletin: Muskego increases access to nursing program
• Polio has reemerged in the US. Who should get a polio vaccine now?
• Wisconsin secures $868K grant from CDC for suicide prevention, advocates looking to build, expand resources
• How peanuts may help with weight loss, blood pressure and move
• What to know about getting updated Covid-19 booster, flu shot at the same time
• San Francisco takes one step closer to decriminalizing plant-based psychedelics
• Pedestrian struck and killed overnight near Fond Du Lac and Baldwin
• Safety tips for National Baby Safety Month
• MPD: 3 critically missing sisters found safe
• Additional types of cancer reported in people with breast implants, FDA says
• Religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine to expire for Froedtert employees after Novavax vaccine
• 'Full of joy': West Allis teen dies from severe asthma attack, family hopes his story saves someone else
• Heart device allows local retired teacher to live a normal life
• Judge strikes down 1931 Michigan law criminalizing abortion
• Obamacare can't require coverage for certain HIV prevention drugs, federal judge rules
• Wisconsin to receive more than $14M in Juul settlement
• Americans may need yearly shots to protect against Covid-19
• Wisconsin expands monkeypox vaccine eligibility
• These states will have abortion on the ballot in November
• Water pressure restored in Jackson, Mississippi, governor and city officials say
• The language we use to talk about pregnancy and abortion is changing. But not everyone welcomes the shift
• 'We're living in a nightmare': Jackson university students take online classes, leave campus amid city's ongoing water crisis
• An algae bloom has killed thousands of fish in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Everything you need to know about the updated Covid-19 boosters
• Just 2 minutes of walking after eating can help blood sugar, study says
• CDC vaccine advisers vote to recommend updated Covid-19 boosters
• Ultraprocessed foods linked to cancer and early death, studies find
• US clears updated COVID boosters targeting newest variants
• No appointments needed for monkeypox vaccine at Menomonee Valley Drive-Thru Clinic in Milwaukee
• Milwaukee police search for driver in 6th & Juneau hit-and-run pedestrian death
• Accidental shooting injures 23-year-old family member
• First lady Jill Biden tests negative for Covid-19
• 2 Ohio fraternity members sentenced in hazing death of Bowling Green State University student
• Hiker dies after 100-foot fall in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge
• The squirrels 'splooting' all over New York City are just fine, officials say
• A partial foot in a shoe was discovered in one of Yellowstone's deepest hot springs
• Overnight shooting in Kenosha leaves 3 wounded after bar fight
• Why you need to stop adding salt and what you can do to make your food taste good instead
• New York City reports 2 human cases of the West Nile virus as the city sees record number of infected mosquitoes
• 'Help is on the way': FDA finalizes rule that should usher in cheaper hearing aids
• Milwaukee County sees increased demand for restraining orders
• 5,760 cases of Capri Sun have been recalled after being contaminated with cleaning solution
• Possible end game to Northridge Mall court drama with new ruling
• New fence along Kinnickinnic river considered short-term solution to deadly problem
• UK becomes first nation to approve Covid-19 vaccine targeting both Omicron and original strain
• 5 ways being single can cost you more
• Women in Scotland now have a legal right to free menstrual products
• Backpacks with school supplies donated by West Allis dentist group Henry Schein, Inc.
• More than 2,000 California mental health clinicians set to strike
• One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is endangering butterflies and bees
• Colorado eliminates sales tax on diapers and menstrual products
• 'So grateful to be here tonight': John Fetterman returns to campaign trail after suffering stroke in May
• CDC ends recommendations for social distancing and quarantine for Covid-19 control, no longer recommends test-to-stay in schools
• Homemade baby food contains as many toxic metals as store-bought options, report says
• How to avoid soft tissue injuries, according to experts
• 8 reasons why you wake up tired, and how to fix it
• Under 60, healthy, vaccinated and boosted? 'You're in a pretty good place' with Covid-19
• Major test of first possible Lyme vaccine in 20 years begins
• President Joe Biden tests negative for Covid-19 following rebound case
• Change in monkeypox vaccine injection method could mean more doses but may not be easy, experts say
• Monkeypox declared Public Health Emergency; Milwaukee prepares to fight the virus
• Now should I worry about monkeypox? Our medical analyst explains
• Biden administration declares the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency
• US waited to order preparation of bulk stocks of monkeypox vaccine, in part out of concern that they would lose shelf life
• Milwaukee Health Department fills all 200 monkeypox vaccine appointments, more to be made available
• Understanding Covid rebound cases: UW Health expert explains Paxlovid connection
• More than 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered in Wisconsin
• A popular sunscreen is being recalled because it may contain a carcinogen
• Spain reports first monkeypox-related death in Europe
• White House: Biden tests positive for COVID-19 again in ‘rebound’ case, has no reemergence of symptoms and will isolate
• This doctor reversed heart disease. Now he wants to do it for Alzheimer's
• First case of Monkeypox identified in West Allis resident
• 'We want them to be safe': Kids get free vaccines, masks, school supplies at Back-to-School Health Fair
• Updated Covid-19 booster shots could be available in September
• Doctors should test levels of PFAS in people at high risk, report says
• Wisconsin DHS expands eligibility for monkeypox vaccine
• An additional 786,000 monkeypox vaccine doses will soon be available in the United States
• Little-known adeno-associated viruses may be key to unexplained hepatitis in kids, studies say
• New studies agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19 pandemic
• Napping regularly linked to high blood pressure and stroke, study finds
• Biden's condition continues to improve with sore throat now predominant symptom, President's physician says
• Business blossoming for a cause: Flower field delivers hope for liver care
• In the kitchen at the library: Milwaukee Public Library shares resources for healthy eating habits
• More than 90 million in the US will endure alarmingly high temperatures Sunday as heat wave persists from mid-South to Northeast
• Florida school board rejects new sex ed textbooks
• CDC reports the first two monkeypox cases in children in the US
• Why mental health matters for athletes -- even as they give their all to win
• New York adult diagnosed with polio, first US case in nearly a decade