The family of a top New York City emergency room doctor who recently died by suicide is speaking out about the mental struggle health care workers are facing amid the coronavirus pandemic as well as the possibility that the virus may have “altered her brain” after she became infected herself. Dr. Lorna Breen, who served as…
In lieu of treatments you might find with professionals, Cuomo's wife, a luxury magazine editor, reached for a handy regimen of 'oxygenated herbs.' There is a particular brand of rich white lady wellness pseudoscience that I’ve never fully understood, but obviously has such consistent appeal that it can sustain the Goop Labs of the world.…
A respiratory therapist from Troy who was at one point intubated for 16 days and sick from COVID-19 is on the mend to recovery. Researchers are looking to learn more about whether a rare disease drug called Soliris — which she took as the first patient enrolled in a new clinical trial — helped with…
By Dixon Hayes | April 20, 2020 at 4:55 PM CDT - Updated April 20 at 5:12 PM ETOWAH COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - The coronavirus has taken an especially heavy toll on a family in East Alabama. Three members of the family, Phacethia Posey, her father Billy Ray Woods, both of Gadsden, and his nephew/her…
CLOSE There is a lot of misinformation out there about coronavirus. We sort the facts from falsehoods. WochitWOODLAND PARK, N.J. – It was the best news Steve Mastropietro could have hoped to receive.His 91-year-old father had made a near-miraculous rebound on Saturday morning after being diagnosed two days before with COVID-19.A nurse at the New…
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
The patient count for an outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite linked to iceberg lettuce has topped 10,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting 10,930 patients as of Aug. 21, up from 9,481 reported on Aug. 13. The sick people are spread across 17 states. There are 454 patients who have
A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two