Health

After months of COVID, flu and RSV infections, parents of little kids are kinda losing it. But the data shows kids have always brought home waves of respiratory illness.

The peer lead support group Proud Sobriety is starting this Friday and is open to members of the LGBTQ community and allies.

Toxic metal can be harmful to developing brains. New lead targets are part of a broad FDA imitative to reduce children's exposure to the lowest levels possible.

Cleveland City Council may approve $1.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to erase approximately $190 million of Clevelanders' medical debt.

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

The health system is unveiling a new birthing center as part of its ongoing nearly $1 billion transformation of its main campus medical center in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood.

The Summit County Public Health Opiate Abatement Advisory Council is seeking public input on how to allocate a $104 million opioid settlement.

"Ohio After Roe" launches on the weekend that Roe v. Wade turns 50. Ideastream Public Media's Amy Eddings talks about what she experienced and learned during this project.

XBB.1.5 is an omicron subvariant that is not really affected by the original COVID-19 vaccine. The most recent bivalent booster provides the best protection, according to health experts.

Cleveland Clinic officials attributed rising labor costs to its balance sheet being in the red last year in an annual address on the state of the Clinic.