Health

The sedative xylazine is starting to permeate illegal opioids and cocaine. It does not respond to naloxone, an overdose reversal medication, and may be to blame for grisly injuries and infections.

Declaring a public health emergency can free up resources to help the administration respond to the monkeypox outbreak. So far more than 6,000 people in the U.S. have been infected.

After years of waiting, Vermont’s youngest residents are finally eligible for a COVID vaccine. Beginning in late June, the state began offering the shots to kids 6 months to 5 years old. But this rollout is different from previous ones.

The virus that causes monkeypox — with initial symptoms like fever, malaise and headache — can then turn contagious, and lead to a rash and lesions.

The National Weather Service issued a heat advisories this week as temperatures soared into the 90s in parts of Vermont.Climate change is making heat waves like this one more common — and more dangerous. But there are things you can do to protect yourself.

Data show 2021 was an especially deadly year. More Vermonters died from gunshot wounds in 2021 than any other year in the last decade. Most of the firearms deaths were suicides.

Recent rule changes made it easier for patients to get abortion pills through the mail, using telehealth services. Now there is growing demand for these services – and new legal battles brewing.

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.

The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot.

Amid a nationwide shortage, Vermonters on tight budgets are struggling to find enough formula to feed their children.