Health

After two Ohio State University students died of a possible drug overdose and a third was hospitalized, the university warned students of possible counterfeit Adderall pills laced with fentanyl in circulation. Resident Agent of Cincinnati’s DEA office Joe Reder says there's been an increase in fentanyl-laced pills in the area.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and the Cincinnati nonprofit 1N5 has a series of activities and speakers lined up to encourage everyone to address their own mental health.

About seven million Americans are immunocompromised, according to the American Medical Association. When the CDC released new masking guidelines last month, there wasn't a lot of detail about what those people should do.

Lucretia Bowman says she used to be a criminal stuck in a cycle of crime rooted in her trauma. Roughly five years after being released from prison, she and her husband invited five women struggling with addiction to live with them and work toward a faith-based recovery. It's been about 25 years since then, and on Wednesday, she and a community of supporters broke ground on the expansion of City Gospel Mission's women's residential recovery program.

It's a common misconception that people can access period supplies through government assistance. That's not the case.

Cincinnati Children's reviewed patient records from 2011 to 2021 and discovered an alarming increase in the body mass index in kids.

Cincinnati Children's was a test site for studying use of the Pfizer vaccine in children. An advisory panel Tuesday recommended the Food and Drug Administration issue an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 years old.

A local researcher asked patients about how they're coping with loss of smell from COVID-19. The findings are published in the International Forum of Allergies & Rhinology.

The publication, developed by Cincinnati's 2030 District, covers everything from air and water to mental health.

Ohio nursing homes reported more shortages of nursing assistants than any other state during the pandemic, highlighting a problem that has been festering for decades.