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A pharmacist holds a bottle of the antibiotic doxycycline hyclate in Sacramento, Calif., July 8, 2016. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, that it plans to endorse the antibiotic as a post-sex morning after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

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US health officials propose using a cheap antibiotic as a 'morning-after pill' against STDs
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Mon,10/02/23-8:13AM , 321 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a morning-after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to try to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases.
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A child runs across the street in the Five Points neighborhood Friday, Aug. 4, 2023 in Knoxville, Tenn. The city saw a spike in gun deaths in 2020 and 2021, with a gun homicide rate that at one point in 2021 rivaled Chicago's. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

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As research grows into how to stop gun violence, one city looks to science for help
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,08/24/23-9:23AM , 213 Reads
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — “That’s where I got shot,” said Rashaad Woods, nodding toward a convenience store in Knoxville’s “gun zone.” There were bullet holes in a church’s walls. Nearby was a shuttered nightclub where some people were killed.
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In this Nov. 20, 2015 file photo, a man walks along a trail during sunset near Manhattan, Kan. In 2022, about 49,500 people took their own lives in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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US suicides hit an all-time high last year
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Thu,08/10/23-1:09PM , 201 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
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This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito. The species is a known vector for the parasitic disease malaria. The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months...the first time there's been local spread in 20 years. There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas, according to a health alert issued Monday, June 26, 2023, by the CDC. (James Gathany/CDC via AP, File)

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Malaria cases in Texas and Florida are the first US spread since 2003, CDC says
By MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Mon,06/26/23-5:28PM , 262 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — The United States has seen five cases of malaria spread by mosquitos in the last two months — the first time there's been local spread in 20 years.

There were four cases detected in Florida and one in Texas, according to a health alert issued Monday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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