Health

The flu season begins on October 1.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and MUSC Health Florence and Marion Medical Center have decided to help raise awareness in a special way.

The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality has announced that swimming in N.C. coastal waters affected by Hurricane Ian should be avoided.

The “In the Pink” Breast Cancer Awareness Walk was set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 1 but has now been moved to Saturday, Oct. 8.

On Monday, Pfizer asked US regulators for the OK to offer the updated booster to 5-to-11-year-olds, starting the approval process for that group of children to receive it.

The new technology allows surgeons to perform more complex surgeries through smaller incisions.

Fetuses in the womb scowled after their mothers ate kale but smiled after they ate carrots, according to a new study.

Their son was just seven years old when Michael and Michelle Moreland heard the words every parent dreads.

The state’s Department of Health and Environmental Control said one person in South Carolina has died from the West Nile Virus, marking the first death from the virus in the state this year.

A doctor wants to raise awareness about health equity one step at a time.

Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, has died.

A group of South Carolina senators voted to remove exceptions for rape and incest from a proposed abortion ban.

The Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center recognizes the month of September as veteran suicide prevention month.

The biggest thing doctors want you to know is COVID is not gone, it’s still here and still very contagious. Their expectation is that we’ll see another spike heading into the colder season. The question that remains to be seen-- how big of a spike and if the spike will cause more severe cases?

South Carolina’s Department of Health and Environmental Control is working to end the spread of monkeypox in the Palmetto State by expanding eligibility for the vaccine effective Tuesday.

Grand Strand Medical Center typically sees an increase of patients over Labor Day weekend, but they make sure to prepare in case you have to pay them a visit.

Eligible inmates will report their substance use, cravings and triggers on a smart device, and counselors will use the results to inform their therapy sessions.

It's Overdose Awareness Day and the Myrtle Beach Fire Department has resources to help those recover after experiencing an overdose.

According to the annual drug overdose deaths statistical report for South Carolina, from 2019 to 2020, the total number of opioid-involved overdose deaths in South Carolina increased by 59 percent.

More people in South Carolina are eligible and encouraged to get the Monkeypox or “mpox” vaccine because of a new way the state’s health department is giving it.

According to SCDHEC, this change will increase the number of doses available, and the criteria for those eligible to get vaccinated is expanding.

Gov. Henry McMaster held a ceremonial signing Thursday for a bill that provides state employees with paid family leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child.

On August 25, 2020, Corporal Michael Ambrosino died after a long battle against COVID-19 and the complications that followed.

The city of Myrtle Beach is looking for a person to help tackle the opioid crisis in the city.

Three members of a Myrtle Beach family were found guilty of defrauding the federal government out of more than half a million dollars.

Thousands of South Carolina students are now back in the classroom or going back this week as they start another school year impacted by the pandemic.

Four health centers in the Pee Dee and Grand Strand area each received $65,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Monday.

There are several things parents need to do before their child heads back to the classroom, and a back-to-school check-up should be at the top of the list.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community are raising concerns about being heavily targeted in the media and in society for the spread of monkeypox.

The first day of school for HCS students is August 15.