Persistent financial adversity may be having an impact on your brain

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 9/1 7:12A Kelly Broderick

Consistently having to deal with financial adversity may be having an impact on your health. That's according to a recent study published by in the journal Innovation in Aging , which tracked thousands of participants over decades to examine...

CDC confirms more than 17,000 cyclosporiasis cases across US

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/27 6:03A Justin Boggs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed more than 1,000 new cases of cyclosporiasis in the United States this summer, bringing the total number of confirmed illnesses to more than 17,000. The cases include 922 hospitalizations...

Researchers warn type 2 diabetes is rising rapidly among children and teens

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/26 5:16A Justin Boggs

New research to be presented next month at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting in Italy found that youth type 2 diabetes cases in Colorado increased nearly 10-fold between 2002 and 2023. Researchers said the Colorado...

1 in 4 former NFL players who died from 2016 to 2021 had CTE, study estimates

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/25 4:27A Nadia Kounang, CNN

At least 1 in 4 former National Football League players who died between 2016 and 2021 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study released on Tuesday in the journal BMJ. The study is one of the most informative estimates to date...

Pennsylvania reports first measles deaths in 35 years

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/25 3:40A Justin Boggs

The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported that two people recently died from measles, marking the states first deaths from the virus in 35 years. The deaths involved unvaccinated Lancaster County residents, the department said. Officials did...

8-year-old Louisiana girl dies from rare brain-eating amoeba found in warm freshwater

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/24 9:47A AP via Scripps News Group

An 8-year-old girl in Louisiana has died after being infected by an extremely rare brain-eating amoeba that is found in warm freshwater, her family says. Lillian Smart died over the weekend after being diagnosed with an infection from Naegleria...

More Americans view alcohol as harmful to health, poll finds

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/22 9:20A Justin Boggs

The proportion of Americans who say they drink alcohol occasionally remains at a record low, according to a new Gallup survey. The poll found that 54% of adults say they occasionally drink alcohol, tying last year for the lowest percentage...

HHS launches first national alert initiative for missing autistic individuals

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/22 4:34A Justin Boggs

The Department of Health and Human Services announced the launch of the first National Autism Missing and Endangered Person Alert initiative. The effort, led in partnership with the Department of Justice and the Federal Emergency Management...

Costco’s first Medicare partnership targets senior care experience

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/19 7:20A Justin Boggs

SCAN Health Plan and Costco announced this week an expanded strategic partnership that marks Costcos first collaboration with a Medicare plan. The partnership combines Costcos expertise serving retail consumers with SCANs experience managing...

Trump chooses White House adviser Heidi Overton for FDA

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/19 2:54A Scripps News Group

President Donald Trump announced his pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Heidi Overton will be Trump's nominee to lead the agency, according to a post by the president on Truth Social. The decision comes about three months after...

COVID-19 cases rising nationwide ahead of updated vaccine rollout

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/17 8:28A Scripps News Group

COVID-19 cases are rising in all 50 states, and doctors say some people remain at risk of serious illness. Scripps News medical contributor Dr. Omer A. Awan said the average American is unlikely to develop severe disease, in part because of...

Trump’s vaccine order is counterproductive and ‘wrong on so many levels,’ GOP lawmaker says

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/16 6:52A Julia Benbrook, Adam Cancryn

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, an increasingly sharp critic of President Donald Trump, on Sunday called the presidents vaccine order to separate injections for measles, mumps and rubella wrong on so many levels because, among other things, it...

Cases of a fungus found in healthcare facilities, are rising rapidly

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 8/7 4:17A Diana Anos

Cases of Candida auris, a fungus found in healthcare facilities, are rising rapidly this year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. As of July 25, 3,437 clinical cases in 27 states have been reported, CDC data shows. The agency...

Cyclosporiasis outbreak has affected about 1 in every 1,000 people in Michigan

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/29 10:29A Deidre McPhillips, CNN

About 1 in every 1,000 people in Michigan has had cyclosporiasis over the past three months amid a multistate outbreak that has grown to the largest on record. More than 10,000 cases have been reported in Michigan during the outbreak...

The dangerous side of ‘maxxing’ your health, according to experts

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/24 5:37A Madeline Holcombe

Drink tart cherry juice for sleepmaxxing! Add protein in everything for proteinmaxxing! Eat raw garlic for spermmaxxing! Online influencers are telling you to take your health to the max with highly specific and sometimes highly unusual changes....