WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot.
Sareth Sin, 67, died upright, seated in a plastic chair, on Christmas Day. He was asphyxiated by fumes from the generator he ran to chase the desert chill out of a cannabis greenhouse on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County.
January marks Cervical Health Awareness Month across the United States, where every year more than 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer.
Living with Alzheimer’s disease is like traveling in a foreign land without a map and unable to communicate. Caregivers and family members need a map to navigate this ever-changing disease and skills to communicate with love and understanding.
Nicotine vaping became the most common type of substance use among young people, according to a long-term national study headed by University of Michigan researchers.
HOLLAND — It has been almost two years since Kendra Ireland gave birth to her daughter, Hudson.
It is hard to think of the COVID-19 pandemic as being anything other than negative. The one silver lining to emerge from the pandemic, however, is that for the past two years, the common cold and flu were practically nonexistent.
The holidays can be a stressful time for people, sometimes brought on by unrealistic expectations that can lead to experiencing the “holiday blues.”
With more than 200 Americans still dying of drug overdoses each day, states are beginning the high-stakes task of deciding how to spend billions of dollars in settlement funds from opioid manufacturers and distributors. Their decisions will have real-world implications for families and commu…
About 4 in 10 seniors living in Michigan nursing homes are up-to-date on their coronavirus vaccines, which could leave many vulnerable if cases surge again this winter.
The Michigan Department of Health has approved two hospitals' requests to temporarily add more beds on an emergency basis in response to a recent increase in patients hospitalized for respiratory viruses.
Orthopaedic Associates of Muskegon (OAM) recently announced the opening of a new expanded office in Grand Haven.
GRAND RAPIDS — There are growing concerns as cases of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and the flu continue to rise across Michigan.
Doctors have a message for vaccine-weary Americans: Don’t skip your flu shot this fall – and seniors, ask for a special extra-strength kind.
Michigan residents can request more free COVID-19 tests from the state health department, thanks to a partnership between the state’s health and human services department and the Rockefeller Foundation.
In 2021, 30 of the 33 people who died by suicide in Ottawa County were men.
Leaders from the North Ottawa Community Health System (NOCHS) and Trinity Health Michigan have signed an agreement for NOCHS to become a full member of Trinity Health Michigan, starting Oct. 1.
LOS ANGELES — With monkeypox on the rise, Lady Kay decided to hold off on meeting clients in hotel rooms or private dungeons.
LANSING — Michigan health officials identified 15,851 new confirmed and probable COVID-19 cases and 83 new coronavirus deaths last week, according to the state’s weekly update on Tuesday.
Bozeman Health had a problem, one that officials at the health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana said had been building for months.
The compound in psychedelic mushrooms helped heavy drinkers cut back or quit entirely in the most rigorous test of psilocybin for alcoholism.
Often maligned foods such as meat, sugar, saturated fat and gluten might not be the most dangerous things you could be eating these days.
The number of deaths by suicide in Ottawa County have remained consistent for nearly a decade, with the number in 2021 exactly the same as the previous year.
Folks of a certain vintage have the tell-tale crater on their upper arms: The discolored, shallow scars from the smallpox vaccine.
Adults with mild to moderate hearing loss will now be able to buy hearing aids without getting their hearing tested by an audiologist or other specialist, under a new FDA rule announced Tuesday.
People in Ottawa County are still continuing to get sick from shiga-toxin producing E. coli.
Earlier this week, the Ottawa County health department sent out a public notice warning people of the growing cases of illnesses related to shiga-toxin producing E. coli.
MUSKEGON — Public Health Muskegon County has been notified by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services that a probable case of the monkeypox virus has been identified in a Muskegon County resident.
Medical experts pleaded with the public Monday to update immunizations, one day after a team of epidemiologists was deployed over the weekend in New York state, where the first polio case in nearly a decade was confirmed in the U.S.
The Ottawa County Department of Public Health (OCDPH) said that two probable cases of monkeypox have been identified in Ottawa County.
MUSCATINE, Iowa — Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn’t complete the two-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa’s outreach clinic in her southeastern Iowa hometown. It was a hot June day, and a wir…
When Sebastian Rios was a toddler, he hardly talked. “Don’t worry,” his pediatrician told Amparo and Victor Rios, Sebastian’s parents. Kids who grow up in households in which both Spanish and English are spoken are sometimes slower to develop language skills, she said.
Sexually transmitted diseases were on the rise in Ottawa County last year, according to a communicable disease report from the county’s health department.
LANSING — To help keep Michiganders up to date on monkeypox (MPV) and the state’s response to the virus, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has launched a new website at Michigan.gov/mpv.
Quick help for suicidal thoughts and other mental health emergencies may soon be as easy as 9-8-8.
HOLLAND TWP. — The Ottawa County Department of Public Health (OCDPH) will host a kindergarten health fair on Thursday, July 21, to help parents prepare incoming kindergartners for going back to school with free immunizations and hearing, vision and dental screenings.
WASHINGTON — For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the U.S.
CHICAGO — For people who contracted COVID-19 during earlier omicron surges, doctors have some unwelcome news: You are again susceptible to catching the virus.
LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s state health department launched a public education campaign Wednesday to instruct residents and health care providers on the differences between medication abortion and emergency contraceptives.
A plan to help the Grand Haven-based North Ottawa Community Health System continue to provide “quality care for area residents” has been signed into Michigan law, state Rep. Greg VanWoerkom announced Wednesday.
On Monday, several Michigan physicians spoke out against the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Forty years ago, 1,000 children a day were afflicted with polio in 125 countries around the world. Thanks to efforts by Rotary International, that disease that once devastated children across the globe is nearly entirely eradicated.
As the temperature rises in the summer, so does the risk of heat-related illnesses, like heat exhaustion and heatstroke. Over the past 30 years, extreme heat has claimed more lives in America than any other weather-related hazard, including flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes or lightning, accor…
The Ottawa County Department of Public Health says it will begin providing the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines to children under the age of 5, beginning today.
Holland Hospital recently opened a new primary care office in Grand Haven, located at 1600 S. Beacon Blvd., Suite 240.
GRAND RAPIDS — COVID-19 numbers are trending in the right direction across Michigan. After increasing for six weeks, hospitalization and case rates have declined slightly this week in the Wolverine State.
BERLIN (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.”
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, Ill. — The call came into the southern Illinois abortion clinic on a recent weekday: A young woman from Missouri was on the line, frantic because she no longer had the money to pay for her $470 procedure, which was scheduled for the next day.
MUSKEGON — Muskegon Community College, working in collaboration with West Michigan Works! and several Michigan community colleges and hospitals, had a “soft launch” for its surgical tech program on May 16, becoming the first health care associate’s degree registered apprenticeship in the Uni…
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.
WASHINGTON — At the center of the nationwide baby formula shortage is a single factory: Abbott Nutrition’s plant that has been closed for more than three months because of contamination problems.
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