Nearly 650 men have had their dementia tests automatically rescored, according to a report released Friday by the law firm handling claims against the NFL.
If you’re a parent or caregiver, you’ve probably signed a lot of forms lately as your kids head back to school. But there’s a new one that needs your attention. It’s the opt-in for school counseling and mental health services form and if you have a child under the age of 14, this applies to you.
Workers in America’s emergency departments were more likely to contract COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic in community settings or at home rather than when providing patient care in a hospital setting, according to new research conducted at emergency departments across the nation.
Students across Alabama will head back to school over the next couple of weeks, and many of them will be jolted into a routine they had almost forgotten over the summer.
The White House is doing what it can, like bringing in formula from overseas and extending programs designed to help families affected by the shortage.
President Joe Biden is set to name top officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to serve as the White House coordinators to combat the growing monkeypox outbreak.
A bipartisan group of senators is pushing compromise legislation to restore abortion access in the wake of the June Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
It’s World Lung Cancer Awareness Day, and local doctors and patients are reminding you about the importance of getting regular check-ups and screenings.
Connect Alabama is a new app that was created through a partnership with the Alabama Department of Public Health and the Alabama Department of Mental Health.
Wednesday, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered an “uncommon bacteria that causes melioidosis,’ in soil samples from the coast of Mississippi.
As of July 23, there have been a total of four cases of vibriosis reported to the Mobile County Health Department for the year 2022, according to a department news release.
Researchers also found only 17 percent of parents of children between 6 months and 5 years old said their child has been vaccinated or will be as soon as possible.
The Montgomery location on Carmichael Road gives 100% of its blood to Montgomery hospitals, and they are asking for people to donate at a center near them.
For four decades, the United States government enrolled hundreds of Black men in Alabama in a study on syphilis, just so they could document the disease’s ravages on the human body.
The study revealed that even just 15 minutes a week of brisk walking or biking can help you think quicker and combat the delay in processing speed that comes with aging.
Alabama has been dealing with an uptick in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations for much of the last two months as the highly contagious BA.5 subvariant of omicron spreads rapidly.
ADPH doctors said Monkeypox does not spread easily from person to person, but close, intimate, skin-to-skin contact appears to be the primary mode of transmission in the current global outbreak.
Democratic representatives in Alabama have officially called upon Governor Kay Ivey and republican leadership to call a special session to repeal the 2019 Alabama Human Life Protection Act.
The Department of Pediatrics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine have joined a network of children’s hospitals across the country that will coordinate on the response of future pandemics and other disasters.
Thompson said he will be isolating for the next several days, but Jan. 6 committee spokesman Tim Mulvey said the committee’s eighth hearing this summer will proceed.
