The songs making light of young Shannon's experience have earned swift condemnation from the public and politicians, with one social media user, Janet Ayre, decrying the production as a "sick joke".

NEW YORK — Should it be legal to take a sick day to care for your pet? That's what a proposed amendment to New York City's Earned Safe and Sick Time Act would allow. The proposal ...

Councilman Shaun Abreu introduced a bill that would require employers in New York City to let workers use their paid sick leave to take care of pets and service animals. By Lola Fadulu New Yorkers ...

It’s common to take a few tablets when we’re worried about getting sick or mix up a glass of Emergen-C at the first sign of a cold. It’s nice to imagine it as a cure-all, but reality doesn ...

Marco Zenone is a public health researcher who studies misinformation and online portrayals of health and wellness issues. A few years ago, he wanted to study the usefulness and accuracy of mental ...

They don’t guarantee you won’t get sick, and their protection doesn’t last forever. “I acknowledge that these are not our best vaccines for preventing illness in the first place,” said ...

Gen Z is calling out of work for the same aches and pains as their elders — but at surprisingly higher rates. In a new poll, per Daly Mail, 24% of workers aged 16 to 26 said they used neck or ...

The UK is sick. It’s much sicker than other similar countries, and the situation is getting worse, snowballing into a health, social, medical, economic, and potential budgetary crisis.

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