In the dozen years she's worked with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, executive director Brittany Graham has lost count of the people she's seen succumb to British Columbia's toxic drug crisis. Sunday marked eight years to the day since the province declared a public health emergency related to the deadly toxic drug crisis, and Graham said it's a sombre anniversary as she and others in public health reflect on the thousands of deaths. "Last time I did a count it was somewhere in...
House Public Health Chairman Sam Creekmore, R-New Albany, tells Mississippi Today's Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance he's hopeful he and other negotiators can strike a deal on Medicaid expansion to address dire issues in the unhealthiest state.
On the week of February 5, several stalls in the bathrooms at public high school Luis Felipe Crespo in Camuy, Puerto Rico, had padlocks on them for no apparent reason. Fed up with the many other maintenance issues at their school, three students, including 17-year-old Alaisha Torres Soto, decided to make a video showing the bathrooms’ conditions. The text overlaid on the video, which they posted on their graduating class’ TikTok account, read: “Uniforme completo jóvenes” (Students, wear your...
Health officials from the Balkh Public Health Department report a notable rise in cancer cases within the province. “In 1401, about 2,613 OPD cases were registered with us. During the last year, 1402, these figures were 4,912 cases,” said Ehsanullah Kaliwal, the head of the oncology department at Balkh Regional Hospital. Some doctors attribute the […]
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A town in Labrador has declared a state of emergency because a fire has spread to an area containing explosive material. RCMP are warning residents of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and the town's Canadian Forces base of an uncontrolled fire in the area. Police say an explosion is expected. Mayor George Andrews says the fire broke out at several buildings on the north side of town. The town is asking all residents in that area, locally known as the Canadian side,...
Emergency Medical Service officials are pushing for more automatic defibrillators in local businesses and asking the public to help map the locations of the life-saving devices, allowing 911 dispatchers to alert callers to the nearest location in an emergency. “We salute any employer who wants to go the extra mile to protect their staff and […]
Los Angeles County health officials issued an exposure warning Saturday after a traveler with measles visited Universal Studios and several other locations in the county between March 30 and April 1. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said in a news release that it had received notification from the California Department of Public Health of a nonresident traveler who had visited nearly a dozen locations those three days, mostly in Universal City and at the Sheraton hotel on West...
128 state residents in 30 counties have been potentially exposed.
In a stark revelation, health authorities in the bustling urban landscape of New York City find themselves grappling with a disturbing surge in cases of leptospirosis, an insidious bacterial infection transmitted through exposure to rat urine. As this concerning trend gains momentum, officials are urgently sounding the alarm, highlighting the imperative need for heightened vigilance and proactive measures to combat the spread of this potentially life-threatening disease. The escalating...
Montgomery County's Office of Public Health says if children have symptoms
The case is part of a global and national rise in the virus this year.
MARSHALL COUNTY, W.Va. (WTRF) - It was a big day in Moundsville as the ribbon was officially cut for the new facility focused on the Renner Behavioral Health Program, in partnership with the WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. It's a brand new space for those seeking mental health treatment. With this state-of-the-art building, they're hoping to []