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Maine’s health department said Tuesday it would make changes, including working more closely with hospitals and law enforcement agencies to improve child safety protection in the state. The announcement came a few days after Casey Family Services recommended that the Maine Department of Health and Human Services establish joint protocols with law enforcement, hospitals and child welfare staff in...

New York’s governor says state health officials are preparing to urge people to stop vaping.

A measles outbreak concentrated in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods in New York City is over, meaning an emergency order mandating vaccines will be lifted, health officials said Tuesday.

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday amid a measles outbreak — the worst outbreak in New York City since 1991.

Parents and teachers in Lowell, Massachusetts, are calling for action after what they call critical sanitary code violations.

A number of parents across New England are flipping out after a last minute summer gymnastics camp cancellation. They paid more than a thousand dollars for their kids to attend the camp and they want their money back.

Imagine eating seven McDonald’s Sausage McMuffins in one sitting. That’s what it would be like to finish just one breakfast burrito from The Cheesecake Factory, and the massive meal has topped the 2018 list of “Xtreme Eating Awards.” The list, released Thursday from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, purports to highlight some of the most unhealthy dishes...

Public Health officials in Waltham, Massachusetts are warning residents about a recent spike in drug overdoses in the city.

A nurse was charged Thursday in the death of the father of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser after authorities said she failed to give him a series of neurological exams following his fall at a Philadelphia senior care facility.

A Maine woman who prepared a salad says she realized after a couple of bites her fork was stuck in a 3-inch lizard, minus the tail.

New York City filed a $500 million lawsuit Tuesday against prescription opioid manufacturers and distributors, seeking to hold them accountable for their alleged part in the city’s opioid epidemic.

A man who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Hawaii, flew to Maui and then hopped on a plane to San Jose was captured by sheriff’s deputies in Stockton Wednesday morning thanks to a tip from an alert cab driver, according to sheriff’s officials.

Hawaii authorities were searching Tuesday for a man described by a prosecutor as fitting the profile of a serial killer who escaped from the state’s psychiatric hospital outside Honolulu and flew to Maui.

Four deaths in Hurricane Maria’s aftermath are being investigated as possible cases of a disease spread by animals’ urine, Puerto Rico’sgovernor said Wednesday amid concerns about islanders’ exposure to contaminated water. A total of 10 people have come down with suspected cases of leptospirosis, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said at a news conference. On a U.S. territory where a third of...

A Manchester, New Hampshire, restaurant sustained about $25,000 worth of damage in a fire Thursday afternoon.

Oklahoma plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an effort to reduce abortions in the state. The State Board of Health will consider regulations for the signs on Tuesday. Businesses and other organizations will have to pay an estimated $2.3 million...

With thousands already homeless after the floods in Louisiana, the formation of mold threatens many others in the region, NBC News reported. As many as 11 people were killed when unrelenting rain flooded the state beginning Aug. 13. Gov. John Bel Edwards called the disaster a “historic, unprecedented flooding event” after the storm system dropped three times as much rain...

The first documented case of the Zika virus transmitted by sexual contact from a woman to a man was reported in New York City, the Centers for Disease Control announced Friday.

Alerts were sent to dozens of employees of a pharmaceutical company after officials say a nurse reused a syringe while giving them flu shots at a New Jersey clinic.

Three more people have died of Legionnaires’ disease in the Bronx in an outbreak that has claimed seven lives in total and hospitalized more than 60 people, the New York City Health Department said Monday, as hundreds of residents met with health experts and state and city officials at a town hall meeting to get answers.