Cincinnati health systems remove COVID-19 mask mandates for guests at hospitals

Three years after mask mandates for hospital visitors began, Cincinnati-area health systems have elected to make face coverings optional.

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She boarded a cruise ship. Then she had a stroke.

When it came time to board the bus for the cruise terminal, Shelley had a headache. Once on board the ship, she headed straight to her stateroom for a nap. "I took the girls out to look around the ship and when we went back to the room,

New Mexico marks 1st child death of the state's flu season

New Mexico health officials are reporting the first pediatric death during the state's current flu season. The state Department of Health announced Tuesday that a 2-year-old Otero County girl died from a flu-related illness.

As legal pot grows, more kids sickened by edibles at home

More than 7,000 confirmed cases of kids younger than 6 eating marijuana edibles were reported to the nation’s poison control centers between 2017 and 2021, climbing from about 200 to more than 3,000 per year.

Interim director appointed for VA Rocky Mountain Network

The Department of Veterans Affairs appointed Sunaina Kumar-Giebel as interim director of the VA Rocky Mountain Network, according to a Monday news release. Kumar-Giebel is currently the network's deputy director and chief operating officer.

For first woman to record 1,000 laps in a year on Manitou Incline, a 'challenge within a ...

For a long time, Rachel Jones considered herself something of a "tour guide" on the Manitou Incline. "For people who'd never done it before," she said of the Pikes Peak region's notorious, vertical set of steps gaining more than 2,

Watertown schools 'highly recommending' masks until COVID, flu levels drop

Watertown Public Schools said Monday that it is "highly recommending mask-wearing for both students and staff in WPS until the levels for both COVID and flu go down." The recommendation comes as COVID levels in the Boston-area wastewater are as high as they've been in almost a year,

What is delirium and what causes it?: Harvard Health Publishing weighs in.

LeWine M.D. Chief Medical Editor, Harvard Health Publishing · 40 years of experience · USA. Delirium refers to a rapidly de

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