By Andy Lusk, KUCB News Published: 33 minutes ago The City of Unalaska is the main population center in the Aleutian Islands. The Unalaska City Council approved all funding requests from local nonprofits at a city council meeting April 23. Eight organizations including KUCB submitted Community Support Grant applications. All received the full amounts of…

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Angels of Assisi certain have their hands full, and an even fuller calendar. Director of Development, Carol Jesse, speaks with 7@Four about upcoming events. In June, the adoption center is hosting Pet Health Fair Mobile Clinic. Bring your cats and dogs out to the Berglund Center Saturday, June 8th between 10 a.m.…

Pickles have more health benefits than you might think – CBS Philadelphia Watch CBS News Pickles, in all their varieties, are popular. The United States Department of Agriculture said Americans eat about 9 pounds of pickles per person each year on average. View CBS News In Be the first to know Get browser notifications for…

A world-famous competitive eater is retiring, citing decades of overeating that have left him with health concerns. Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi announced in Netflix’s “Hack Your Health – The Secrets of Your Gut,” that he is leaving the sport he’s been a part of for more than 20 years, USA Today reported.  The 46-year-old…

March of Dimes is a nonprofit seeking to end preventable maternal health risks and death, stop preterm birth and infant death, and close the health equity gap. TYLER, Texas — The March for Babies/March of Dimes Coalition will host its annual walk to raise awareness for maternal and baby health this weekend in Tyler.  The…

GENEVA (AP) — Member countries kicked off the World Health Organization’s annual assembly on Monday with hopes of improving global readiness for deadly outbreaks like COVID-19, after an ambitious “pandemic treaty” ran aground last week. Health officials are racing to get the world to agree to new ways to prepare for and fight an inevitable…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – A health services company with operations around the world is laying off 140 employees in Memphis, according to a WARN notice filed with the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development.  Maximus Inc. informed the department on Friday that it plans to layoff 140 workers at its facility on South Mendenhall Road…

SPRINGFIELD – For years, Dr. Mark A. Keroack kept a small glass swan nearby — a gift from a patient during his days as an infectious disease specialist. It was the early years of the AIDs epidemic. One of his patients, a sex worker suffering from addiction, had lost her children to the foster care…

Diagnoses of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have surged in the United States over the last several years, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, which examined data from more than 45,000 parent responses to the 2022 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), found that in 2022,…

Geneva, May 27, 2024 — The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and global health initiative Unitaid signed a Memorandum of Understanding today to intensify collaboration to end 30 preventable communicable diseases in the region by 2030, such as cervical cancer, HIV and Chagas disease. The agreement, signed on the margins of the 77th World Health…