Public Health

The rise of a new Barbie themed TikTok challenge has some podiatrists concerned, NBC affiliate WDIV reported July 24. 

The percentage of U.S. adults dealing with lingering effects of a bout with COVID-19 has not significantly declined over the last few months, according to the latest CDC data. 

A new study suggests a depression diagnosis could double the risk of dementia later in life. 

COVID-19-related hospitalizations nationwide are up this week by 10.3 percent, while the death rate continues to decline — down by 0.9 percent, according to CDC data. 

Emergency department visits for tick bites have risen by 30 percent in the last year, the CDC reported. 

Drinking water laced with borax or bathing in it is the latest medical TikTok trend physicians are up against, NBC News reported July 22. 

Health experts are betting on a trio of vaccines to help prevent a repeat of last fall and winter, when a simultaneous surge of COVID-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus overwhelmed hospitals. 

Health officials in Washington are investigating what is believed to be the state's first Candida auris infection in a Pierce County man. 

A 2-year-old Nevada boy died July 19 after contracting Naegleria fowleri — the brain-eating amoeba, health officials confirmed to Becker's July 20.

Florida health officials reported a new case of malaria, bringing the total to eight in the U.S. since May, NBC News reported July 18.