Totally Cool, a Maryland company, has recalled nearly 70 ice cream products sold under 13 brand names because they could be contaminated with listeria.
Why it matters: Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immunes systems, according to the recall notice on the Food & Drug Administration website.
Longstanding caps on green cards for foreign-educated nurses are limiting one potential fix for America's stark shortage of health care workers.
Why it matters: As burned-out nurses leave the field, many hospitals and nursing homes have sought to recruit nurses from abroad to help fill vacancies estimated at nearly 200,000 per year.
Data: Axios research; Note: Includes states with Youth Risk Behavior Survey data published as of June 2024; Washington data is an average of 10th and 12th grade results (unavailable for 2019); Chart: Axios Visuals
Youth mental health has begun to improve after major pandemic dips, new data shows.
Why it matters: The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare students' struggles as well as a fractured system to help them navigate recovery.
Addressing America's gun violence crisis requires a public health approach, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared in an advisory Tuesday.
Why it matters: The surgeon general's advisory, one of the most significant tools his office has to draw the public's attention to a health issue, comes days before the first presidential debate and follows a spate of mass shootings in the first weekend of summer.
