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Frank Cope waits outside for a car after a checkup at Bellevue Hospital in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2023. The previous week, New York City resumed a mask mandate for the city’s 11 public hospitals. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon)

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More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Wed,01/03/24-5:30PM , 163 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face an expected but still nasty post-holiday spike in flu, COVID-19 and other illnesses.
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A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center in Lynwood, Calif., on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. Health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to accelerate in the coming weeks, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023, fueled by holiday travel and gatherings, low vaccination rates, and a new COVID variant that seems to spread more easily. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

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Flu and COVID infections are rising and could get worse over the holidays, CDC says
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Fri,12/22/23-12:36PM , 91 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Look for flu and COVID-19 infections to ramp up in the coming weeks, U.S. health officials say, with increases fueled by holiday gatherings, too many unvaccinated people and a new version of the coronavirus that may be spreading more easily.
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A beam scale is seen in New York on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. A study of young kids in the Women, Infants and Children program adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children. The update was published Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, in the journal Pediatrics. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

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Study bolsters evidence that severe obesity increasing in young US kids
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Fri,12/15/23-3:07PM , 96 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — A new study adds to evidence that severe obesity is becoming more common in young U.S. children.
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Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and exhibits long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Rose, 67, said many of her symptoms waned after she got vaccinated, though she still has bouts of fatigue and memory loss. U.S. health officials estimate 3.3 million Americans have chronic fatigue syndrome — a bigger number than previous studies have suggested, and one likely boosted by patients with long COVID, according to results released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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Chronic fatigue syndrome is not rare, says new CDC survey. It affects 3.3 million U.S. adults
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,12/07/23-3:50PM , 86 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials on Friday released the first nationally representative estimate of how many U.S. adults have chronic fatigue syndrome: 3.3 million.
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