The Vermont Department of Health’s local office in Morrisville continues to offer clinics for COVID-19 vaccines and influenza.
This page contains all of the Vermont Community Newspaper Group’s coverage of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
A woman who dealt with debilitating trauma after the loss of her spouse and child finally found long-term housing earlier last month after two years living in emergency hotel housing made possible by pandemic-era federal funding.
The town of Craftsbury has allocated over $300,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding between nine organizations.
The Vermont Department of Health is preparing to dole out $150,000 to Lamoille County people or organizations working to improve health equity and break down barriers to getting health care.
It’s time again for the Biden administration to look at COVID-19 restrictions again. Cases are going up, so are deaths.
It was only after his son had died that Skip Vallee learned how much he had truly accomplished.
For a few years now, Peter Ingvoldstad and his wife Mary have been leveraging one of the most important assets they own as an essential part of their retirement income: their home.
The Lamoille County Food Share is still seeing record numbers of visitors, and that’s concerning to its workers, because if they were that busy during the nice Vermont summer months, things are looking grim for the months ahead when people struggling to make ends meet start to make tough choices between paying for heating fuel or day care or paying to put food on the table.
The Craftsbury Public Library will host an information session on current COVID-19 recommendations Sunday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m., in cooperation with the Vermont Department of Health.
The Vermont Emergency Rental Assistance Program, or VERAP, doled out over $130 million across the state in emergency assistance for those struggling to pay rent and utilities since the COVID-19 pandemic began, but now that program is winding down.
Vermonters will be able to receive newly approved COVID-19 vaccine booster shots designed to be a match for the BA.5 Omicron variant currently affecting most people.
For the first time since 2019, students of all ages arrived for the first day of school last week without masks to protect against the spread of COVID-19.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Want to stay healthy well into your golden years? Grab a bag of clubs and hit the green, new research suggests.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Abuse in childhood and young adulthood is associated with an increased risk for long-term welfare receipt, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in Pediatrics.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of older adults report at least one symptom of addiction to highly processed food, according to the results of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging released on Jan. 30.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccine protection against severe outcomes from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) lasts at least six months after the second dose, but protection is lower for older patients, according to a study published online Feb. 3 in JAMA Network Open.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An alcohol brief intervention (BI) in primary care can improve health outcomes for adults with hypertension, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in BMJ Open.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A variety of sandwiches, salads, wraps, snacks, and yogurt made by the company Fresh Ideation Food Group have been recalled because of potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Good heart health promotes better brain health and can help reduce the risk for stroke and dementia. But is it ever too late to make a difference? New research suggests the answer is "no."
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The heart health of children conceived through in vitro fertilization (IVF) is similar to that of their naturally conceived peers, researchers have found.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Electric cars are still in the minority on America's roads, yet researchers are already seeing health benefits from reduced tailpipe pollution.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- That feeling of crushing pain in your chest can be a medical emergency, but it can also be angina pectoris, or “stable angina” — a symptom of coronary heart disease that can be managed with medication.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends all pregnant people undergo blood pressure measurement throughout pregnancy to identify hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (Grade B recommendation). This recommendation forms the basis of a draft recommendation statement published online Feb. 7.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Treatment with aflibercept versus sham, initiating aflibercept only if vision-threatening complications develop, yields anatomic improvement but no improvement in visual acuity for patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) without center-involved diabetic macular edema (CI-DME), according to a study published in the Feb. 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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TUESDAY, Feb. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The rates of in-hospital mortality and failure to rescue decrease from a hospital volume threshold of more than 25 liver resections per year, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in the British Journal of Surgery.
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