Health Update

But only one county has a surveillance program in place for these disease-carrying pests.

So far this season, four pediatric flu deaths have been reported. Last year, the state reported three pediatric influenza deaths.

As they did in the 2018 report, Morris County came in this year as the healthiest New Jersey county and Cumberland County ranked as the unhealthiest.

A fourth child has died from pediatric flu complications, according to the state Department of Health.

A 2018 survey from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association found the major depression diagnosis rate climbed 47% from 2013 through 2016 among Millennials.

Two months after an outbreak was declared over, the measles have returned to Ocean County.

You might not realize it but you can sometimes wind up paying more for a prescription medication if you use your health insurance.

“30 percent of adults in New Jersey...say they’ve had trouble sleeping at some point over the past week,” said Joel Cantor, the director of the Rutgers University Center for State Health Policy.

A new case of the highly contagious disease is confirmed, with a warning about two spots in Lakewood where the measles patient visited in late February.

Large companies whose workers get health coverage through Medicaid rather than through their employer would have to start paying the state an annual "corporate responsibility fee" under Gov. Phil Murphy’s budget proposal.