All 29 people who had been unaccounted for following a pair of wildfires that have killed two people are accounted for, the mayor of the Village of Ruidoso said Wednesday. “All the folks that we had on the missing list is now at zero,” Mayor Lynn Crawford said at a community meeting about the South

The Israeli Consulate of New York is cutting back on its presence at New York City’s Pride march this weekend due to safety concerns and the solemn mood in Israel following months of war, according to the consulate’s spokesperson. Itay Milner, the consulate’s spokesperson, said in a phone call that a smaller number of representatives

An Indiana police department has released body camera video of a traffic stop in which an officer fatally shot a 22-year-old Black man, a death that prompted local protests. Fort Wayne police released a statement this week along with edited body camera video of the stop on Saturday evening, saying the “actions from occupants inside

The former school district police chief in Uvalde, Texas, who oversaw the response to the 2022 elementary school shooting that killed 21 people, including 19 children, was arrested on a child endangerment charge, an official at the Uvalde jail said Thursday. Pete Arredondo, 52, was taken in by law enforcement officers Thursday, charged with 10

Doctors are prescribing antibiotics to most kids and teens who have pink eye, despite guidelines that discourage their use, researchers reported Thursday. More than two-thirds of U.S. children and teens who saw a doctor for pink eye left with a prescription for antibiotic eye drops, their research found. The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends that doctors do

With fresh Covid cases bubbling up in some parts of the country, health officials are setting course for a fall vaccination campaign. On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended new shots for all Americans this fall. “Our top recommendation for protecting yourself and your loved ones from respiratory illness is to get

TEL AVIV — Family members bid tearful goodbyes to 21 critically ill children who were evacuated from the Gaza Strip as part of a secret mission to get them the badly needed medical help that's been in short supply since the Israelis invaded the Palestinian territory. The deal to allow the children to leave was

New funding from Amazon Web Services, the Children’s Health Innovation Award, or Imagine Grant, will provide $7 million for cloud-based data resources for pediatric research, maternal child total health and empowering pediatric workforces and caregivers, according to an announcement made Wednesday at the AWS summit in Washington, D.C. In addition, AWS has awarded three hospitals

The nursing profession is changing – in large part fueled by information technology that can help nurses meet a growing list of challenges, said Summer Blackerby, RN, chief nursing information officer at CoxHealth Hospital in Springfield, Missouri. Blackerby knows what it is like being a nurse today and the challenges nurses face on a daily

Geisinger is notifying its patients that some of their personal information may have been accessed in a data breach allegedly perpetrated by a former employee of Nuance Communications, which provides IT services for the health system. WHY IT MATTERS The Danville, Pennsylvania-based nonprofit, which serves 1.2 million people at more than 130 sites across the

A review committee tasked to advise the Australian government on publicly funded services listed on the Medicare Benefits Schedule has released its official recommendations on implementing subsidised telehealth services in the country.  This comes as many COVID-19-era telehealth items, including assessments for COVID-19 antiviral medication over the phone, are set to expire next month, July. 

As Toys”R”Us continues to seek a successful post-brick-and-mortar future, it’s hoping a new AI-generated video helps portray the dreams and magic of its founder. Using Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video platform, Toys”R”Us created a video depicting an AI-generated version of a young Charles Lazarus, who founded the company in 1948, and his father in an old-time bicycle