On Monday, Pfizer asked US regulators for the OK to offer the updated booster to 5-to-11-year-olds, starting the approval process for that group of children to receive it.
The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control said one person in South Carolina has died from the West Nile Virus, marking the first death from the virus in the state this year.
The biggest thing doctors want you to know is COVID is not gone, it’s still here and still very contagious. Their expectation is that we’ll see another spike heading into the colder season. The question that remains to be seen-- how big of a spike and if the spike will cause more severe cases?
South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control is working to end the spread of monkeypox in the Palmetto State by expanding eligibility for the vaccine effective Tuesday.
Grand Strand Medical Center typically sees an increase of patients over Labor Day weekend, but they make sure to prepare in case you have to pay them a visit.
Eligible inmates will report their substance use, cravings and triggers on a smart device, and counselors will use the results to inform their therapy sessions.
According to the annual drug overdose deaths statistical report for South Carolina, from 2019 to 2020, the total number of opioid-involved overdose deaths in South Carolina increased by 59 percent.
More people in South Carolina are eligible and encouraged to get the Monkeypox or “mpox” vaccine because of a new way the state’s health department is giving it.
Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.
Four health centers in the Pee Dee and Grand Strand area each received $65,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Monday.
There are several things parents need to do before their child heads back to the classroom, and a back-to-school check-up should be at the top of the list.
Anastopoulo Law Firm, headquartered in South Carolina, filed a class action lawsuit against Lyons Magnus after the food and beverage company recalled dozens of products that might be contaminated.
A physician said we’re in the worst time of the year right now for heat-related illness. He says it doesn’t take long to go from “discomfort” to “danger” before you know it.
The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is urging families to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 before they return to the classroom.
Grand Strand Health emergency medicine residents spent Tuesday and Alligator Adventure learning how to respond to various environmental emergencies in our area.
The North Carolina state employee health plan will resume coverage of gender-affirming treatments for transgender people, complying with a June federal court ruling that declared the refusal of coverage unconstitutional.
Quite simply, there is no truth to the myth that peeing on a jellyfish sting makes it feel better. Not only are there no studies to support this idea, but urine may actually worsen the sting, too.
Sandwich chain Subway can be sued over claims it is allegedly misleading customers when it says its tuna products are in fact "100% tuna," a federal judge ruled.
Thousands of ticks of an invasive species that can kill animals and make humans severely ill were recently found on a South Carolina farm, and the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control is now asking for the public’s help to find out if they’re in other parts of the state.
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