Tick season is not only starting sooner—it’s becoming a year-round event. While April through September are usually the most active months, the pesky eight-legged parasites are biting people and animals much earlier in the year than expected. The increasing tick bites are leading to a rise in a variety of tick-borne diseases, including some that were previously uncommon.

Gerber Good Start SoothePro is the latest formula to face a voluntary recall due to possible contamination. Here's what parents need to know about all the recent recalls.

Americans spend more on prescription drugs than any other country. One of the agendas of the Biden-Harris Administration has been to focus on lowering prescription drug prices and making them more affordable for American families.

The fear of Covid-19 virus may have vanished in thin air, with health planners and citizens in India treating it as an “almost-over case”. But it is not. Given the news about long-term Covid infection still rattling many around the world, there is one worrying factor. It is the deep impact the virus has left on the mental health of many, including in India, where the population is ageing, underserved by the health care system, and is uninformed and poor. While we kept analyzing Covid-19 impacts primarily from business, jobs and economy angles, the pandemic has, in fact, exposed the fragility of the health system in India. Further, Bill Gates, the billionaire philanthropist, in his latest 304-page book, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic, talks about these fragile health systems and the need to develop a strong infrastructure to combat pandemics in the future.

The highest number of monkeypox (mpox) cases in the world is reported in the United States, with a total of 30,225 cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As of March 1, 2023, 38 deaths had been recorded.

“DO I HAVE LONG COVID?” That question has probably crossed your mind if you’re still dealing with lingering symptoms, like fatigue, brain fog, or shortness of breath, weeks or months after recovering from Covid-19.

Pleasant springtime weather unfortunately also brings its share of sniffles and sneezing for seasonal allergy sufferers. In the Las Vegas Valley, specific types of trees, plants, and grasses are often blamed for allergy symptoms. Here, we tapped a few experts to share which ones pose the biggest threat.

Our local pollen lab says this allergy season may be worse than past years.

Public health authorities are investigating an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at The Orleans after two guests contracted the form of pneumonia. Both guests, who stayed separately at the hotel in December and January, have since recovered from the disease, officials with the Southern Nevada Health District said Friday.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, seasonal flu cases were lower than average. But this year cases roared back with a high number of cases early in the season. According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), there were an estimated 25 million illnesses, 280,000 hospitalizations, and 18,000 flu-related deaths caused by this flu season as of February 24, 2023.

In mid-May 2022, still in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic, another virus arrived on the scene in Massachusetts: monkeypox. The vaccine to cure the condition was accessible, but the coronavirus was the overwhelming priority for millions of lives in the United States.

A cruise ship carrying 800 Covid-positive passengers recently docked in Sydney after being hit with a major COVID-19 outbreak—a scenario eerily reminiscent of the early pandemic days. It was a stark reminder that the pandemic is not over, and that cruising still presents a certain level of COVID-19 risk.