Ear Infection

The Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Philadelphia Department of Public Health are advising the public of exposure to a case of measles in Lancaster and Philadelphia counties. An international traveler visiting Pennsylvania has been diagnosed...

When I¿was a youngster growing up in the 1970s and 80s, allergies were almost unheard of. Certainly, if one of your classmates in school had allergies, they were considered to be very unusual. Even then, their allergies were not considered to be serious....

At first glance, 4-year-old Kaitlyn Woodard appears to be a typical child of her age. Playing with her older brother Caleb, 7, Kaitlyn bounds around the downstairs living room of her family’s Nicholasville home with all the energy associated with...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTLA) - The California Department of Public Health is warning of an outbreak of measles in the Golden State. California is outpacing the rest of the nation this year with 28 reported cases. Health officials say most of the patients...

Lawrence R. Newman, a prominent advocate for the rights of the deaf community and a former longtime teacher and administrator at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, has died. He was 86. Newman, who served two terms as president of the...

Automated vending machines that dispense prescription drugs are popping up in health care facilities across the country, and MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island this year became the first hospital in Illinois to embrace the new technology....

We all know that smoking is bad for you, and secondhand smoke can be worse and as if we needed a study to tell us, we now know it's even worse for kids. The surgeon general has already said there is no safe amount of secondhand smoke. For kids it can...

Everyone knows that smoking is harmful to health. However smoke exposure (secondhand smoke) can also be harmful, notes Adam Spanier, M.D., Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital pediatrician. Cigarette smoke has more than 4,000 chemicals in it,...

You're in an emergency room. You're worried. OK, maybe that's an understatement. Maybe you're terrified. This may not be the setting in which you always make your best decisions. But you won't get to take back any of the decisions you make in an ER, so...

The state Department of Health is advising the public of potential exposure to a case of measles in Berks, Bucks, Delaware and Lehigh counties. This possible exposure is in direct link to the July 11 exposure previously reported at the Rite Aid Drug...

Both the CdM Aquatics and Newport Water Polo Foundation 18-and-under girls' water polo teams have reasons for optimism headed into the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics. CdM is coming off a title at the California High School State Championships on July 24....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health scientists say Pfizer's best-selling vaccine Prevnar is at least as effective as a competing vaccine from Merck at helping prevent potentially deadly infections in adults Prevnar 13 is designed to reduce the risk of...