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....

FDA says Cyclospora test on Taylor Farms lettuce was false positive

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/20 3:45A Scripps News Group

Lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms that initially tested positive for Cyclospora was a false positive, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency said laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample because of the complexity of detecting...

Taco Bell lettuce supplier under investigation in cyclospora illness outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/17 1:27A Brenda Goodman, Deidre McPhillip

Shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and sold at some Taco Bell restaurants has been linked to a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a source familiar with the investigation said Thursday. Cases of the intestinal illness caused by...

Health officials confirm tuberculosis case at Colorado ICE facility; ICE denies any active cases

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/15 4:10A Scripps News Group

Adams County, Colorado, health officials have confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at an Aurora immigration detention center, but health officials said Tuesday the company that runs the facility has failed to provide the legally required...

Taco Bell removes some ingredients during nationwide cyclospora investigation

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/15 2:38A AP via Scripps News Group

Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with state-level data suggesting that 2026 is already the nation's worst year for reported cases. More than 30 states have reported infections this year, and current data from...

Congo’s Ebola crisis deepens with most new cases unlinked to known contacts

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/14 4:06A AP via Scripps News Group

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo continues to outpace the response efforts, the World Health Organizations emergencies chief said on Tuesday after returning from a trip to Bunia, in Ituri province, which is one of the worst hit areas. Perhaps...

An experimental Alzheimer's drug is showing some promise

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/14 3:45A AP via Scripps News Group

An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer's disease in a markedly different way than today's treatments by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday. Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer's...

Health officials eye lettuce in spreading Cyclospora outbreak

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/14 1:42A Scripps News Group

Health officials in Michigan say lettuce and salad greens may be behind a diarrhea outbreak as cases rise above 3,000. Lettuce and salad greens have repeatedly come up during the investigation into the Cyclospora parasite, but officials caution...

Why the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history is becoming more challenging

News 5 Cleveland (Lifestyle) 7/13 9:48A AP via Scripps News Group

The Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo is now the fastest-growing one in history, and new challenges keep emerging even as work begins on a study of two badly needed treatments for a type of Ebola that currently has none. A strike this week by...