Health

Last week, Harris County officials announced that a young child under the age of two was the first presumptive positive monkeypox case in the county. Officials say the case is now believed to have been a false positive.

A new law scheduled to take effect in January 2024 would extend those benefits to cover all adults who, but for their immigration status, would qualify for the state’s Medicaid program.

Amaria Granger, 13, had aspirations to walk a red carpet before she was diagnosed with Niemann Pick Disease Type C. But her mother said she won’t allow the disease to rob her daughter of her dream.

Dr. Anthony Fauci directs the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is Biden's chief medical adviser, and also leads a lab studying the immune system.

A recent American Academy of Pediatrics study of skateboarders, snowboarders and bicyclists younger than 18 found that 52% of children injured were not wearing helmets.

The first lady tested positive for COVID-19 Tuesday, while the Bidens were vacationing in South Carolina.

The biopharmaceutical company expects Auvelity to be commercially available in the U.S. in the fourth quarter of 2022.

The Pennsylvania man wasn’t feeling well and went to his neighbor’s house for help. That’s when he had a heart attack right there on their front porch.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded the study.

The CDC is investigating the source of the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 37 people

Proposals to remove the tax on menstrual products have been introduced in the Texas legislature every year since 2017. Each time the bills have failed.

Customs and Border Protection agents in Arizona seized more than 15,000 fentanyl pills that were strapped to a person's legs on Wednesday, and one official says that it could be the start of a trend targeting younger people.

Researchers looked at nearly 2,500 Pennsylvania children, 405 of whom were diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which is the most common type of pediatric cancer.

Longtime NBC News foreign correspondent Richard Engel announced Thursday that his 6-year-old son Henry had died after a lifelong battle with a rare brain disorder.

The organism is typically found in warmer freshwater sources, though officials warn it’s being identified farther north “as previously cooler regions become warmer and drier.”

At least a dozen U.S. pride events are scheduled over the next two months.

At least 2,056 cases have been reported and virtually all of the deaths have been children who were not vaccinated.

The agency has long been criticized as too ponderous, focusing on collection and analysis of data but not acting quickly against new health threats.