Post Pharmacist at center of deadly meningitis outbreak gets 9 years in prison

Alison Chandra never expected to go viral for tweeting about her son’s medical bills – in fact, she never expected to be the mother of a child who needed so much medical care in the first place.

UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital was listed at No. 7 in neonatology in the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Children’s Hospitals Rankings.

Baraka Cosmas waits to have a plaster cast made of the remainder of his arm at Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Monday, March 27, 2017.

Two new cases of the plague have been confirmed in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, according to health officials. The New Mexico Department of Health said a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman were recently diagnosed with the plague.

The number of Americans who die prematurely would rise by about 29,000 each year if the health reform plan put forth by Senate Republicans were to go into full effect, a new report suggests.

A shopper walks past a woman at a counter displaying cosmetics at a shopping mall in Beijing November 6, 2012. REUTERS/David Gray.

“You don’t want to come to Middletown to overdose because someone might not come with Narcan and save your life,” he said.

SUNAPEE, New Hampshire (NH1) – A bobcat viciously attacked an 80-year-old woman closing up her chickens for the night and picking weeds form her garden.

Lebanon – A research team including a Dartmouth-Hitchcock anesthesiologist has found that doctors are much more likely to prescribe opioids for patients with depression and anxiety than those who do not have a mental illness.

Michigan’s tick population is growing, the number of human cases of Lyme disease is increasing, and Ingham County officials want the public to know the problem has hit home.

In this Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, file photo a patient undergoes a blood test inside a mobile health care clinic parked in downtown Johannesburg.

If you are a doctor who prescribes painkillers, take heed of this case. Dr. Regan Ganoung Nichols, an osteopathic doctor practicing at Sunshine Medical Center in Oklahoma, has been charged with second-degree murder of five patients, who died of …

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich talks about steps to fight the opioid crisis. Robert Gundran/azcentral.com. Macro of oxycodone opioid tablets.

Advances in technology have made it much easier, faster and less expensive to do whole genome sequencing – to spell out all three billion letters in a person’s genetic code.

HARARE, June 27 (Reuters) – Zimbabwe has imposed an indefinite ban on poultry products from South Africa after the country announced an outbreak of highly contagious H5N8 bird flu, the state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Geekiness is higher in boys whose dads were older than 35 years old when they were conceived, study suggests. Children with older fathers also scored better on STEM exams.

A group of activists and Utah residents with chronic conditions has launched a ballot initiative to ask voters next year to pass a broad medical marijuana law.

GREENFIELD — Both sides in the ongoing labor dispute here at Baystate Franklin Medical Center say they’d be making a lot more progress if they were sitting across the table from someone who had only local interests at heart.