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Scott Olson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The FDA has expanded the approval of Eli Lilly’s obesity medication Zepbound to include treating moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea for people with obesity — the first medication [Read More…]

Jessie Owen was left paralyzed nearly 12 years ago when a tree fell on a car in which she was a passenger. Via ABC News. (NEW YORK) — Nearly 12 years ago, Jessie Owen’s life [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A deadly, undiagnosed disease that has been spreading in one region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) may be linked to malaria, health officials said Thursday. As of Dec. [Read More…]

(NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States. The federal health agency said Wednesday that the patient has been hospitalized in [Read More…]

Stevica Mrdja /EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Authorities are looking into online accounts believed to be those of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate charged with murder in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO [Read More…]

krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (MARIN COUNTY, Calif.) — Health officials in Marin County, California say a child with a suspected bird flu infection drank raw milk before getting sick. “[Marin County Public Health] is reporting a [Read More…]

Noam Galai/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — The rates of late-stage breast cancer at diagnosis have risen among women in all racial and ethnic groups, but Black women have been hit the hardest, according to a new study [Read More…]

Derek Crowe, a spokesman for the nonprofit People’s Action Institute, speaks with ABC News. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — Fury, anger and resentment toward the health care industry have exploded in the public rhetoric in [Read More…]

Natalie Behring/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Raw samples nationwide will now be collected and shared with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in order to test for bird flu, according to a new federal order [Read More…]

LW, who asked not to show her face, is a 16-year-old transgender teenager challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical treatments that have improved her quality of life. (ABC News) (WASHINGTON) — Medical treatments for transgender [Read More…]

GMA (NEW YORK) — A growing number of people under 50 are being diagnosed with more advanced stages of colon cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. The 2020 death of 43-year-old actor Chadwick Boseman [Read More…]

Matt Cardy/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was declared over on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In total, 104 people reported falling ill across [Read More…]

Ekaterina Goncharova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are ticking up across the United States even as overall respiratory virus activity remains low. Flu activity is increasing slightly among children [Read More…]

After more than two years of gender-affirming treatments, LW, the Tennessee teenager behind a landmark case at the U.S. Supreme Court, says, “I feel normal now.” (ABC News) (NASHVILLE) — The transgender Tennessee teenager behind [Read More…]

Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — With e-cigarettes and flavored vapes booming in popularity, the Supreme Court on Monday will examine whether the Food and Drug Administration unlawfully blocked the marketing and [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Named to lead the nation’s sprawling Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has big ideas for busting public health policy norms. His Senate confirmation hearings — [Read More…]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Donald Trump is nominating a critic of COVID-19 lockdown policies to serve as the head of the National Institutes of Health. In a statement, Trump [Read More…]

Pierre Crom/Getty Images (FRESNO, CA) — After bird flu was detected in a retail sample of raw milk produced and packaged by Raw Farm, LLC, the California Department of Public Health warned consumers on Sunday [Read More…]

Three influenza A (H5N1/bird flu) virus particles (rod-shaped). Note: Layout incorporates two CDC transmission electron micrographs that have been inverted, repositioned, and colorized by NIAID. Scale has been modified. Image via CDC and NIAID. (NEW [Read More…]

PhotoAlto/Ale Ventura/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals in the U.S. are seeing an increase in RSV and higher levels of “walking pneumonia” among young children despite overall respiratory illness activity remaining low nationally. Cook [Read More…]