Health & Wellness

Jessica Pirro, president and CEO for Crisis Services, discusses the impact of the new National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Monkeypox has been causing a lot of stress and confusion as people share both fact and fiction on social media.

The Biden administration is scrapping plans to offer COVID boosters for people under 50 this summer. Instead officials will push for an earlier release of the next generation boosters in the fall.

While New York State has legalized recreational adult use of marijuana, there are still many regulations and rules that users, growers, and businesses need to know. Guests attending a public forum Thursday at the University at Buffalo heard advice from researchers and business owners about the do's and don’ts of legal pot.

Dr. Nancy Nielsen offers perspective on the recent surge of the Omicron subvariant BA.5

The age of the accused gunman in May’s Buffalo supermarket mass shooting has renewed conversations and debate about suitable punishment for a defendant of that age. Recent criminal justice reforms and gun control legislation take into consideration human brain development, indicating that young people may be legal adults, but not fully mature.

Abortion may be legal in New York State, but the recent reversal of Roe v. Wade has caused a bidding war over an empty lot next to a Buffalo abortion clinic, where protesters frequent.

Doctors can settle where they want to live and practice. There is a national shortage of obstetricians and gynecologists and serious issues in women's health in many places. The OBGYN chair at the Jacobs School of Medicine worries new doctors in the field may avoid many states where they are desperately needed but where there are restrictions on what they can do.

With COVID safety protocols rescinding around the country, many are returning to a sense of pre-pandemic normalcy. But disabled and immunocompromised people can't do so, and are being left behind.