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MIAMI — There's no big rush to get the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to health experts. Many patients are hesitant to get the shot for a variety of reasons, including vaccine fatigue, fear of side effects and the feeling that COVID is over. But there’s a new variant spreading, and public health agencies and many doctors say the new vaccine, which rolled out in November, can help keep people healthy during this holiday stretch of traveling and gathering. Pharmacies and the drug companies are aggressively pushing the new vaccines in ads and texts. Here’s what to know about the new COVID vaccin......

Thousands of counterfeit units of Ozempic have been seized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is now urging pharmacies, suppliers and patients to use caution when dealing with the drug. The FDA issued a warning Thursday about the counterfeits of Ozempic, a drug for type-2 diabetes that has also become popular for weight loss. Patients and practitioners are being advised to check the 1-milligram injectable product and not to use those labeled with lot number “NAR0074” and serial number “430834149057.” Five people have fallen ill from the counterfeit products, although none of them ......

Mayor Quinton Lucas held a “Fentanyl Summit” Friday afternoon at the Kansas City Health Department to raise awareness on the city’s fentanyl and opioid crisis. Health officials, law enforcement and families had a public discussion to tackle the epidemic of opioid and fentanyl related-deaths. During a press conference after the event, the mayor categorized the issue of drug overdoses in the city as an “epidemic” driven by fentanyl. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there were 109,698 overdose deaths in 2022. As previously reported by The Star, Kansas Cit......

CHICAGO — Before David “Davey” Bauer made history at Northwestern Medicine for a double lung transplant assisted by a pair of DD breast implants, he considered himself a fairly healthy guy. Bauer, 34, spent his hours off from his landscaping job in De Soto, Missouri — near St. Louis — golfing, snowboarding and skateboarding. Cigarettes, he thought, were the only negative. A former smoker who went through a pack a day for four years, Bauer switched to vaping in 2014. “I thought it seemed like a safer alternative,” Bauer said. “In hindsight, it seems like I should have just quit sooner ... it’s ......

MIAMI — Miami — ground zero in the United States for the Brazilian butt lift, the mommy makeover, breast enlargement and other plastic surgery specialties — has achieved another distinction: It is home to a cottage industry of illegally operating recovery centers for post-op patients who need to hunker down and heal, sometimes for days. Embedded in suburbia, the homes are engaged in a game of whack-a-mole with authorities, who look for vans disgorging bruised and bandaged passengers, and featuring back-alley garbage cans brimming with bandages and other medical waste. Often overcrowded and/or ......

NEW YORK — The blacked-out windows of a Bronx apartment weren’t enough to hide the lethal fentanyl mill operating inside. Four accused drug dealers were busted and charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics and narcotics distribution after one of the largest fentanyl seizures in New York history, with more than 50 pounds of the drug – including 200,000 suspected fentanyl pills – recovered inside the residence, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said. “The thought of the potential damage this stunning amount of fentanyl could have inflicted on New Yorkers is terrifying,” said Williams......