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1 month ago | 
nbcnews.com | Mustafa Fattah |Marina Kopf |Emilie Ikeda
More measles cases have been reported in the first three months of 2025 than in all of 2024. Most of the 420-plus cases have been centered around the West Texas outbreak, which has spilled over to neighboring New Mexico and Oklahoma. Other cases in people returning from travel abroad have been reported in a handful of states.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Aria Bendix |Mustafa Fattah |Erika Edwards
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made clear in testimony before the Senate this week that if confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, his focus would be on chronic diseases over infectious ones. “We’ve devoted all of these dollars to infectious disease and to drug development and very little to chronic disease,” Kennedy said Thursday before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nbcchicago.com | Marina Kopf |Mustafa Fattah
Just one alcoholic drink a day is linked to a wide range of negative health effects, according to a federal report released Tuesday. The findings, which apply to both men and women, tied a daily drink to an increased risk of liver cirrhosis, several cancers and injuries but a lower risk of ischemic stroke. That apparent protection is canceled out, however, by occasional binge drinking.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Marina Kopf |Mustafa Fattah
Just one alcoholic drink a day is linked to a wide range of negative health effects, according to a federal report released Tuesday. The findings, which apply to both men and women, tied a daily drink to an increased risk of liver cirrhosis, several cancers, and injuries, but a lower risk of ischemic stroke. That apparent protection is canceled out, however, by occasional binge drinking.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Erika Edwards |Mustafa Fattah
Jan. 13, 2025, 9:45 PM UTCWinter viruses are raging right now, with flu leading the way at extremely high levels in the West, across the Midwest and deep into the Southeast, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. Flu-related hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise, and experts predict there’s much more to come. “I feel confident that flu activity is going to be elevated for several more weeks,” said Alicia Budd, head of the CDC’s domestic influenza surveillance team.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nbcchicago.com | Kaitlin Sullivan |Mustafa Fattah
A 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The case was Canada’s first recorded human infection of avian influenza, which has infected at least 66 people in the United States since last March, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
nbcnews.com | Mustafa Fattah
Jan. 3, 2025, 11:31 PM UTCA 13-year-old girl in British Columbia who was hospitalized with bird flu for several weeks late last year harbored a mutated version of the virus, according to a report published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The case was Canada’s first recorded human infection of avian influenza, which has infected at least 66 people in the United States since last March, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
nbcnews.com | Mustafa Fattah
Dec. 31, 2024, 8:11 PM UTCNorovirus, sometimes called the “winter vomiting disease” or “two-bucket disease” —because it causes both vomiting and diarrhea — is on the rise across the nation, even as seasonal flu is taking off and walking pneumonia rages on. Wastewater data and reports from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention have shown a significant spike in norovirus in the last few weeks, with rates far exceeding those of the past few years.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
telemundoareadelabahia.com | Mustafa Fattah |Sara Miller
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield dijo el jueves que no iba a seguir adelante con un cambio de política que limitaría los reembolsos por anestesia durante cirugías y procedimientos médicos. La nueva póliza habría reembolsado a los médicos según los plazos establecidos por la aseguradora. Anthem BCBS, una de las aseguradoras de salud más grandes de EEUU, anunció silenciosamente la nueva política de reembolso el mes pasado para Connecticut, Nueva York y Missouri a partir de febrero.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
cnbc.com | Mustafa Fattah |Sara Miller
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said Thursday it was not going ahead with a policy change that would limit reimbursements for anesthesia during surgeries and medical procedures. The new policy would have reimbursed doctors based on time limits set by the insurer. Anthem BCBS, one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., quietly announced the new reimbursement policy last month for Connecticut, New York and Missouri beginning in February.
