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Extending the Clinical Conversation Through Storytelling: Ken Korber's Vision for Child Wellness

As a clinician and children's author, Korber operates at the intersection of medicine, communication, and early childhood development, using narrative as a practical tool to improve health literacy and emotional well-being.

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Texas TB Surge Raises Alarm as Most Infected Residents Remain Unaware

For nearly three decades, tuberculosis followed a reassuring trajectory in the United States: case counts declining year after year, the disease receding from public consciousness, treated as a solved problem of the developing world rather than an active threat in American cities.

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After Historic Drop in Homicides, Chicago Sees Shooting Surge — Study Reveals Impact of Trauma Care Access

Through the first four months of 2026, Chicago recorded 130 homicides — up from 120 during the same period in 2025 — and 421 total shootings, a 5% increase over last year's pace.

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LA County Health Services Braces for $700M Crisis After Medi-Cal Rollback Hits 200,000 Residents

On May 28, 2026, the County of Los Angeles made it official: LA Health Services announced it is undergoing strategic service relocations as a direct response to what the county calls an "unprecedented budget crisis."

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Philadelphia's Fight Against Fentanyl Reaches Turning Point as Federal Budget Cuts Threaten Lives

Philadelphia's fight against fentanyl is showing measurable results, with overdose deaths declining steadily due to expanded prevention and treatment efforts. Despite this success, unstable funding and a dangerous drug supply continue to pose serious risks.

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Jacksonville Is Ground Zero for Florida's 2026 Measles Outbreak — Anti-Vaccine Parents Are Putting Every Child at Risk

A city of nearly one million people that once went years without a single measles case now finds itself at the epicenter of a confirmed outbreak — and health officials in Jacksonville are growing increasingly alarmed as the case count refuses to stop climbing.

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Phoenix Records First Heat Death of 2026, Exposing Dangerous Gaps in Public Health Safety Net

Maricopa County health officials have confirmed the first heat-related death of 2026 — an older adult male whose passing marks the grim official start of what forecasters are already warning could be another catastrophic summer in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

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ACA Enrollment Fraud Now Tops 6 Million — And Taxpayers Are Footing a $27 Billion Bill

A sweeping new report released today confirms what critics of the Affordable Care Act have warned for years: millions of ineligible individuals are receiving federally subsidized health coverage, draining tens of billions in public funds through a system riddled with structural loopholes and almost no accountability.

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San Francisco Sues Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, and 8 Food Giants Over 'Addictive' Products

In one of the most aggressive legal moves ever taken by a U.S. city against the food industry, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed a landmark lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, accusing ten of America's most powerful food and beverage manufacturers of knowingly engineering a public health crisis.

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Deadlier Mpox Strain Detected in New York City — Urgent Warning Issued as 'Life-Threatening' Clade I Surfaces

New York City health authorities have confirmed the first known case of mpox clade I in the five boroughs — a strain experts describe as significantly more dangerous than the clade II virus that drove the global 2022 outbreak.

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Measles Is Back at Disneyland — And Public Health Officials Warn It Could Get Much Worse

In a development that has rattled Southern California's public health community, measles has returned to the Happiest Place on Earth for the first time in more than a decade — and officials say the risk to thousands of park visitors could extend weeks into the future.

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Backyard Poultry Drives Multi-State Salmonella Outbreak, with Texas Among Hardest Hit

A multi-state Salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry continues to affect Texas and surrounding states as of May 2026, with children accounting for a significant proportion of confirmed cases.

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Florida Reports Rising Dengue Activity as Miami-Dade Intensifies Mosquito Surveillance

Florida continues to face an elevated dengue fever risk in May 2026, with Miami-Dade County remaining a key monitoring region for locally acquired mosquito-borne infections.

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Norovirus Surge Hits Los Angeles and Bay Area as Wastewater Data Signals May 2026 Spike

Los Angeles and Northern California are experiencing a significant late-spring surge in norovirus activity, according to wastewater surveillance and recent outbreak reporting from state and federal health systems.

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HEALTH ALERT: Los Angeles Families Are Rebuilding Homes on Toxic Soil — And Federal Agencies Stopped Testing Before They Finished the Job

Seventeen months after the Palisades and Eaton wildfires consumed more than 16,000 structures across Los Angeles County in January 2025 — incinerating homes, vehicles, electronics, solar panels, and decades' worth of synthetic materials — families are returning to their properties and rebuilding.

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HEALTH ALERT: Chicago Ozone Crisis Enters a New Phase — Air Pollution Action Days Are Coming Earlier, Hitting Harder, and Exposing 9.4 Million Residents to Lung Damage

The greater Chicago metropolitan area was placed under an Air Quality Alert this week as the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day, warning that ground-level ozone had reached concentrations classified as "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" — and was forecast to worsen into Wednesday.

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HEALTH ALERT: 1.85 Million New Yorkers May Be Drinking Water Delivered Through Lead Pipes — And the $2 Billion Delaware Aqueduct Fix Has Been Delayed Again

New York City's drinking water is globally renowned. Its taste wins blind competitions. Its source — vast protected reservoirs in the Catskill Mountains and Delaware watersheds — is among the cleanest surface water in the world.

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HEALTH ALERT: CDC Reports Valley Fever Cases Have Doubled in Phoenix Metro Over 17 Years — And the Fungal Lung Infection Is Spreading Beyond Its Historical Boundaries

A landmark federal surveillance study published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on February 19, 2026 has confirmed what public health officials in Arizona have been warning about for years: Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis), the fungal lung disease caused by inhaling soil-borne Coccidioides spores, has approximately doubled in incidence…

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HEALTH ALERT: New York City Fungal Eye Infection Outbreak at LASIK Clinic Blinds Patients — CDC Publishes Emergency Report

A rare and sight-threatening fungal outbreak at a New York City ophthalmology clinic has placed elective laser eye surgery patients across the country on notice, after a federal investigation published in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report confirmed that three patients contracted serious fungal corneal infections following routine LASIK…

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Phoenix Confirms First Heat Death of 2026 Amid 108°F Warning — Maricopa County on Track for Another Lethal Summer

Maricopa County health officials have confirmed the first heat-related death of 2026, an older adult male whose passing serves as a grim annual marker that the desert Southwest's deadliest season has officially begun.

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LA Drinking Water Tests Positive for Lead, Cancer-Linked Chemicals — City Council Demands Emergency Investigation

In an unanimous 10-0 vote, the Los Angeles City Council has demanded an immediate investigation by the Department of Water and Power and the city's Housing Authority after samples of drinking water in the Watts neighborhood were found to contain elevated levels of lead.

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Houston Heat Season Begins with 329% Surge in ER Visits as Officials Warn of Worse Ahead

HOUSTON — As the first days of meteorological summer descend on Southeast Texas, the Houston Health Department (HHD) and Harris County Public Health are bracing for what is shaping up to be another potentially lethal heat season.

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Chicago Issues Air Pollution Alert as Unhealthy Ozone Threatens 9.4 Million Residents

The greater Chicago metropolitan area is under an active Air Quality Alert this week after the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency declared an Air Pollution Action Day, warning that ground-level ozone has reached concentrations categorized as "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups."

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First-in-Class Hepatitis B Drug Shows Promise for 'Functional Cure' in Early Trials

An experimental new treatment for chronic hepatitis B is raising hopes for what researchers call a potential "functional cure," a milestone that could change how the viral liver disease is managed in the future.

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FDA Approves New Immunotherapy Combination for High-Risk Early-Stage Bladder Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new treatment option for patients with high-risk non–muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), authorizing the use of durvalumab (Imfinzi) in combination with Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) on May 28, 2026.

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