Health

Morel mushrooms have been linked to a deadly outbreak in Montana last year, a study in the Center for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said Thursday. According to the study, between March and April of last year, 51 people reported “mild to severe gastrointestinal illness” after eating at a restaurant…

Corey Bowlin, the director of GPTL, expressed a desire for their program to reach more youth in the Pottstown School District.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first drug to treat serious liver disease, the agency announced in a release Thursday. The FDA approved Rezdiffra (resmetirom) for the treatment of adults with a common form of liver inflammation called nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH. NASH, also known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis, or MASH,…

A new study found that women who were pregnant as teenagers are more likely to die in early adulthood than women who did not have teen pregnancies.   The study, published Wednesday in JAMA Network Open, found that in a sample of 2.2 million female teenagers aged 12 to 19 from Ontario, Canada, the risk…

Roughly 12 Biden administration health officials will celebrate “Match Day” for medical students on Friday. They will visit various medical schools across the country and talk about President Biden’s health care plans. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra will go to a medical…

Some dairy farms could turn into lifesaving insulin factories.