Public Health

Sickle cell disease was long considered a pediatric illness because it took so many children's lives. Health interventions have made it possible for people with sickle cell in the U.S. to live well into adulthood. But the transition out of pediatric care comes with many challenges.

Dayton Children's Hospital held a COVID-19 vaccine clinic for children ages six months to four years old on Wednesday morning. The historic clinic comes just a few days after the FDA granted emergency use authorization for the vaccine down to six months of age.

J.M. Smucker issued a voluntary recall for its Jif peanut butter products last week due to potential salmonella contamination.

The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

A recent outbreak of monkeypox in Massachusetts has some wondering if it could spread. Doctors say it is very unlikely it will spread into the Cleveland and Akron metro areas.

While supporters touted the bill as a way to protect children, opponents slammed the legislation as an anti-LGBTQ measure that could have harmful results for transgender kids.

The legislation, commonly known as a "trigger" law, would ban abortion in almost all cases.

The Montgomery County Auditor's office put a quilt on display depicting a map of Dayton showing the racially fueled physical divide in the city first conceived in the 1930s. Health experts continue encouraging Ohioans who haven't to get vaccinated and boosted.

The state held its first COVID briefing since March, when it began reporting COVID stats weekly rather than daily.

The initiated statute faces a challenge in the Republican-dominated legislature.

Death row inmate Kareem Jackson is on death row for killing two men in a robbery in Columbus in 1997 but his execution has been postponed. Meanwhile, two of Ohio's male Senators have different views when it comes to abortion.

A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court this summer could remove federal protections for abortion across the U.S. Most of the Midwest — and about half of all states — are certain or likely to ban or severely restrict access to abortion if given the chance.