HEALTH

House Democrats have unveiled a $28 million emergency spending bill to address the shortage of infant formula in the United States.

Henry Ford Health is issuing a warning to its hospitals are they see an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

A new report finds far fewer Americans said “I do” during the first year of the pandemic when wedding plans were upended.

A judge has suspended Michigan’s dormant ban on abortion, saying it likely violates the state constitution.

The head of the World Health Organization says China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it’s up to every country to decide what policy to pursue.

Nearly 43,000 people were killed on U.S. roads last year.

U.S. regulators have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine booster for healthy children ages 5 to 11.

The Spanish government has approved a draft bill that widens abortion rights for teenagers and may make Spain the first country in Europe entitling workers to paid menstrual leave.

The government website for requesting free COVID-19 at-home tests from the U.S. government is accepting a third round of orders.

Administrators at an elite Beijing university have backed down from plans to further tighten pandemic restrictions on students as part of China’s “zero-COVID” strategy after a weekend protest at the school.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made “self-reliance” his governing lynchpin during his decade in power and shunned international help for his people.

A handful of U.S. hospitals are facing a financial crisis that officials say was caused by the federal government's rules for pandemic relief money.

Free COVID-19 vaccinations will be available at three vaccine clinics at Ann Arbor YMCA’s downtown location, 400 W. Washington St., this week.

North Korea has reported another large jump in illnesses believed to be COVID-19 and encouraged good health habits as an outbreak spreads through its unvaccinated population.

The racist mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left 10 people dead and three people injured over the weekend has communities across the U.S. on high alert.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with Ukrainian refugees and urged the need to confront Russian brutality as she visited Poland ahead of a meeting of finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies.

When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates.

The new chief health equity officer at CVS Health hopes she will have more influence in fixing care disparities before they land patients in the hospital.

President Joe Biden's administration has announced new steps to ease the national shortage of baby formula, including allowing more imports from overseas.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak.

Authorities say most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has blasted officials over slow medicine deliveries and ordered his military to respond to the largely undiagnosed COVID-19 crisis that has left 1.2 million people ill with fever and 50 dead in a matter of days.

Christian clergy have long dominated the chaplaincy in the United States.

Shanghai officials say they will allow some businesses to reopen Monday, even while it remains unclear whether residents will be able to leave their homes.

North Korea says it has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers amid the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak.

Ford Motor Company employees and visitors will once again be required to wear face masks at facilities that are in regions identified as having a high COVID risk, officials said Saturday.

If you’ve never seen a tick in Michigan before, that may soon change: Experts say our state is experiencing a “tick explosion,” with ticks becoming increasingly common.

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants.

North Korea has reported 21 new deaths and 174,440 more people with fever symptoms as the country scrambles to slow the spread of COVID-19 across its unvaccinated population.

The U.S. baby formula shortage has sparked a surge of interest among moms who want to donate breast milk to help bridge the supply gap as well as those seeking to keep their babies fed.

Your dog’s fitness is just as important as yours when it comes to their overall health.

Oakland County is now categorized as having a “high” level of COVID transmission, prompting health officials to release recommendations for masking, testing, and quarantining.

The Texas Supreme Court is allowing the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse.

Leaders of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are calling on the faithful to pray and fast in hopes that the Supreme Court will soon overturn the constitutional right to abortion.

North Korea's recent admission of its first domestic COVID-19 cases has surprised many outsiders and prompted speculation about how bad the outbreak is and whether it could cause a major humanitarian crisis in a country where public medical infrastructure is terrible.

Several Metro Detroit counties have been upgraded to a “high” COVID-19 risk category and are being urged to practice mask wearing in public by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An official says Shanghai will try again to reopen in a few days after it has eliminated COVID-19 transmission among the population at large.

A baby giraffe was born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park with an unusual disorder that caused her front limb to bend the wrong way.

A former Tennessee nurse whose medication error killed a patient has been sentenced to three years of probation.

The new White House COVID-19 coordinator is issuing a dire warning.

The first execution in Arizona in nearly eight years was carried out more smoothly than the state’s last use of the death penalty, when a condemned prisoner who was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination gasped for air hundreds of times over nearly two hours.

North Korea says six people have died and 350,000 have been treated for a fever that has spread explosively across the country.

A new study finds the current questions being used to identify people at risk of mental health issues and suicide often fall short. Especially for people with access to firearms.

Saturday morning was a beautiful spring day, but it was not like most of my weekend mornings.

Before Dr. Anthony Fauci delivered the commencement address to the University of Michigan class of 2020 and 2021, he sat down with Local 4′s Dr. Frank McGeorge.

In the 30 years that Ara Mirzaian has worked with orthotics, he has never had a patient like this: A baby giraffe.

Thousands have rallied across Croatia in solidarity with a woman who was denied an abortion despite her fetus having serious health problems.

Three red fox kits died from the very contagious bird flu (HPAI). This is the first time a wild mammal in Michigan has been confirmed to have avian influenza (HPAI).

The California Legislature has voted to increase how much money people can win in medical malpractice lawsuits.

Many parents are hunting for infant formula after a combination of short- and long-term problems hit the biggest U.S. brands.

Reader feels isolated and annoyed at the presumption that the pandemic will end one day. Is it responsible to keep hopes up?

In a special two-day release, Speak Sis is back for new episodes on financial, physical, and sexual and relation health. Stream the Oprah Winfrey Network’s self-care series tonight and tomorrow at 8/7c. Speak Sis joins hosts Adrienne Bankert and Jotaka Eaddy (accompanied by various experts) for an open discussion on self-care, laughter, and other aspects of health. Encouraging viewers to become proactive advocates for their own wellbeing, this two-night special includes valuable insight into multiple facets of health. Tune in at 8/7c on OWN to catch a new episode of Speak Sis.

Several viewers got in touch to say they thought they had seen a lump under Shirley Ballas's arm.

The field’s future lies in reclaiming parts of its past that it willingly abandoned.

First day rituals old and new marked CPS's first full day back to school.

Gardaí are investigating reports of abusive calls to Ireland's chief medical officer and his deputy.

MUSKEGON, MI – Education, racial disparities and discrimination, and mental health are some top health priorities in Muskegon and Oceana counties. Mercy Health identified the health concerns through its Community Health Needs Assessment, a federally required survey conducted every three years by nonprofit healthcare providers. Stevi Riel, director of Community Health and Wellbeing at Mercy Health, said the assessment is the “guiding document” to understand the health of the community. HealthWest in Muskegon and West Michigan Community Mental Health in Mason, Lake and Oceana counties are working to expand mental health access in the region by implementing a federal Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHC) program. Childcare continues to be a top need with 36% of Muskegon County respondents and 44% of Oceana County respondents saying they struggle to find childcare.

The mice aren’t just causing chaos in homes, farms and hospitals.

Intelligence agencies have long pored over what little information escapes North Korea for hints of life inside the Hermit Kingdom.

While public opinion of the medical care system has improved, a survey found opinion of local health departments and federal agencies has declined.

Should I take a vaccine selfie? Can I ask someone else if they've been vaccinated? How do I talk to family members about the shots? Vaccines bring new etiquette questions.

CDC pleads with Americans to take precautions amid rise in COVID cases Health officials are pleading with Americans to follow protective measures as coronavirus cases rise across the nation. As Mola Lenghi shows us, new infections are up 10% and hospitalizations are trending in the wrong direction. Then, Dr. Uzma Syed, an infectious disease specialist, joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano with more.

Health officials warn of potential spring break COVID surge as Americans travel Health officials are warning of a potential surge of COVID-19 cases around spring break. The warning comes as more than a million Americans traveled through U.S. airports on Monday. CBS News reporter Alex Tin joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on the variant that's expected to become dominant by April, as well as the latest on a new vaccine trial involving children as young as 6 months old.

Health experts fear COVID-19 surge as states lift restrictions Health officials are urging Texas residents to keep wearing masks and social distance even as restrictions are lifted. Janet Shamlian has more.

Sweeping COVID restriction rollbacks worry health experts Health officials are urging caution as states begin some of the biggest rollbacks in restrictions since the pandemic began. Nikki Battiste reports.

U.S. confirms first case of U.K. COVID-19 variant as cases and deaths rise Health officials in Colorado have identified the first case of a new coronavirus variant first detected in the U.K. CBS News correspondent Meg Oliver reports on the surge in infections already happening across the country, and Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, internal medicine physician at California Pacific Medical Center, joined CBSN to discuss what we know about the new variant and the challenges hospitals are facing.

“In my view, health and safety is a mandatory subject of bargaining which may not be disregarded by the provisions of 4.5, especially in light of the fact that it is unlikely in my view that the General Assembly, when contemplating 4.5, envisioned the situation we now find ourselves in,” Sered said. “It is undisputed that the Chicago Board of Education has announced a date certain to bring children and teachers back to in-person learning without bargaining that decision with the CTU. Further, as we are literally dealing with life and death issues, I find this to be irreparable harm.”

"This is the worst outbreak that we've had of a respiratory-borne illness that we've had in 102 years. You can't run away from the data. It's incomprehensible to me how people are not seeing that," Fauci said during a livestream interview. He said the U.S. needs uniform public health measures to suppress the virus' spread instead of a piecemeal approach taken by different states and counties. Meanwhile, other states have taken a less-severe approach to their growing coronavirus outbreaks in an effort to keep businesses open.

“We have seen the positive effects on Lake County’s health when being diligent in mask wearing, but it does take all of us participating to see the positive effects again,” Purdue University Northwest Nursing Professor Jodi Allen said. “I am hopeful that the mask mandate will improve our county’s influenza numbers at the start of the flu season this year which will be immensely helpful to our area’s health care system as we continue to deal with Covid cases.”

FLINT, MI -- A Flint program aimed at urban youth encourages careers in public health, medicine, and research to diversify the healthcare workforce. To diversify the public health workforce, he said early exposure to a range of health fields is essential. The program has evolved to allow Flint youth to develop their own program based on issues that face their communities. Asia Donald, 17, is a Freshman at Oakland University in Flint and participated in a Flint Public Health Youth Academy cohort in Fall of 2019. He now participates in the Flint Public Health Youth Academy’s public forums, which are hosted live on social media.

In light of recent terror attacks, President Obama and law enforcement officials have been telling the public to avoid letting terror control their lives. Dr. Jon LaPook spoke with a clinical psychologist about how fear impacts our health and behaviors.

Before you sit down for Thanksgiving dinner, take a look at the health benefits of gratitude. Studies suggest it can help relieve stress, improve your mood and boost your health all year round. Dr. David Agus joins “CBS This Morning” to discuss the findings.

How to see the signs of measles Health officials are scrambling to stop the measles outbreak from spreading even more after reaching what they call a critical point. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook has details on the outbreak and how to combat it.

Measles outbreak linked to California Disney parks Health officials fear thousands may have been exposed to the measles at Disneyland and "Disney California Adventure" last month. Most of those who got the disease were not vaccinated against it. Carter Evans reports.

L.A. health officials to gay men: Get vaccinated Health officials have confirmed three deaths in Los Angeles County from bacterial meningitis. Officials are recommending gay men who have HIV or multiple partners get vaccinated against invasive meningococcal disease. KCAL-TV's Rachel Kim reports.

Is "oil pulling" the key to better dental health? Some say gargling oil for 20 minutes a day prevents plaque buildup, makes teeth whiter, kills bad breath and treats gum disease. So, is "oil pulling" the key to better dental health? KHOU's Rekha Muddaraj reports.