Butler Memorial Hospital has added a new weapon to its medical arsenal. The hospital announced Tuesday that it has begun using the MONARCH bronchoscopy system from Johnso...
WASHINGTON — Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weat...
NEW YORK — Marian Rivman is pushing 80. Harriet Luria is a proud 83. In this trio, Carol Leister is the baby at 62. Together, they have decades of experience with yoga. O...
A huge push for more dental professionals in the 1970s led to dental schools filled to the brim with eager dentists-in-training. A decade later, dental schools became con...
Excess body weight can raise the risk of certain cancers, leading researchers to wonder whether blockbuster drugs like Wegovy, Ozempic and Zepbound could play a role in c...
County commissioners agreed Wednesday, May 21, to take county-funded emergency medical training to the next level.
Commissioners voted to begin developing a paramedic tra...
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials on Friday endorsed the first blood test that can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and identify patients who may benefit from drugs that can mo...
A baby born with a rare and dangerous genetic disease is growing and thriving after getting an experimental gene editing treatment made just for him.
Researchers describ...
Butler Health System, part of the Independence Health System, is close to breaking even, after multiple successive quarters of losses due to the combined impacts of the C...
There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded.
An estimated 80,000 people died from overdose...
