Health

Meanwhile, vaccination rates among kindergartners in Maricopa County are decreasing.

It’s a lose-lose decision: Carry needles and risk a felony conviction, or dispose of them improperly, putting the public at risk.

For HIV and AIDS patients with compromised immune systems, eating bad food could lead to life-threatening infections.

It was a request from staff who were investigating for possible abuse.

“Don’t give up,” a 2018 Juul pamphlet reads. “You’ll find your perfect puff.”

Beware the Thanksgiving germs.

“If Roe v. Wade leaves, Arizona can become El Salvador,” Terán said.

The owner of a body donation center where FBI agents found buckets of heads and a cooler of male genitalia will pay $58 million to the plaintiffs.

With a new case reported in the last week, here’s what we know about Arizona’s vaping-related illness patients.

The decision rests in the hands of Judge Roslyn Silver.

The number of state disability caseworkers going on medical leave has almost tripled in recent years, according to data obtained by FOIA.

In the last 25 years, conditions have never as bad as they are now for disabled individuals who rely on the state’s care, the resident said.

Former foster parents shed light on why some foster parents are choosing to close their licenses.

What’s most important is what the agency does next, a bedbug expert says.

Seniors are a growing but overlooked group within a burgeoning homeless population.

An anonymous employee said the bugs are all over the building, and management is failing to sufficiently address the problem.

The change in contractors took place this summer, but ADC’s failure to provide decent health care to prisoners has gone on for years.

“Nothing has changed, and everything is just as lousy,” said one woman whose incarcerated son suffers from a host of medical problems.

“In terms of public health, the bad thing is that the word may not get out, or the word will get out and people won’t believe it,” Will Humble said.

The opioid epidemic has taken a particularly heavy toll on tribal communities.