11+ hour, 51+ min ago   (724+ words) New York City health officials have ordered 10 South Bronx cooling towers to be drained, cleaned, and disinfected by Monday after preliminary testing detected Legionella bacteria, and the community cluster in Melrose and Morrisania has grown to nine cases with one…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1040+ words) Troy, New York, kept the last birthing center in Rensselaer County. Trinity Health, the Michigan-based system that owns Samaritan Hospital, reversed its closure plan nearly a year after announcing it, following a campaign that pulled together the city's Republican mayor,…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (898+ words) Bacteria found in 11 patients at a Maryland hospital were genetically matched to samples from the hospital's own water system, according to an investigation published in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases. The organism is Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing nontuberculous…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (1116+ words) Three children in Humboldt County, California, have been treated for rabies exposure after two separate encounters with bats over roughly two weeks, and both bats later tested positive for the virus, the county's Department of Health and Human Services said....

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (753+ words) HPV vaccination among American teenagers has now gone four straight years without increasing, and coverage for the two other routine adolescent vaccines slipped from the previous year. That is the finding of a CDC surveillance report in the Morbidity and…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (445+ words) Federal and state investigators have published the full account of a cluster of drug-resistant bacterial infections at a Maryland hospital, and the source they identified was the building's own water. The investigation drew in the hospital's infection prevention team, the…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (701+ words) Adults who currently smoked reported higher loneliness scores than those who did not, and their loneliness increased more over the following two years, according to an analysis of more than 50,000 people across 15 European countries presented in Barcelona. The analysis was…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (867+ words) Babies born with a higher genetic risk for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease showed slower lung function growth between birth and age six, but only among children who grew up breathing the dirtiest air. In children living in cleaner areas, the…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (692+ words) Pennsylvania has now hospitalized 98 people in its measles outbreak, about 17 percent of the state's 577 confirmed cases, against a national hospitalization rate of roughly 8 percent. That gap is the part of this outbreak that has received the least attention and carries…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (903+ words) Wisconsin health officials have detected measles virus in municipal wastewater in two of the three counties at the center of the state's southwestern outbreak. Samples collected from treatment facilities in Lafayette County and Iowa County during the week of August…...