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Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that heart surgeon-turned-TV-host Dr. Mehmet Oz would lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). “America is facing a Healthcare Crisis, and there may be [Read More…]

Yemassee Police Department (YEMASSEE, SC) — With four primates still on the loose after 43 of them escaped on Nov. 6 from the Alpha Genesis Inc. research laboratory in South Carolina, the Low Country facility [Read More…]

Jun Li/Getty Images/STOCK (SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif.) — Health officials in California have confirmed the first domestic case of a more severe strain of mpox in a traveler from Eastern Africa, according to the U.S. [Read More…]

Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the recent pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the environmental attorney’s views on vaccines have been thrust back into [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — Women are stocking up on birth control and asking for long-term contraception methods following President Donald Trump being elected to a second term last week, doctors say. Searches for [Read More…]

FatCamera/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still persist, new provisional federal data released early Thursday finds. The U.S. provisional infant mortality [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images The election of former President Donald Trump to a second term has put a spotlight on what his return to the White House may look like, particularly when it comes to women’s health. Online searches [Read More…]

Image via Adobe Stock (NEW YORK) — A new study is highlighting a dramatic rise in caffeine-related emergency room visits among kids. The study, released Monday by Epic Research, found the number of caffeine-related ER [Read More…]

STOCK PHOTO/Koto_feja/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is updating its recommendations for testing, treatment and protection for workers who may be exposed to animals infected with bird flu. The [Read More…]

Maskot/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President Kamala Harris said former President Donald Trump will roll back health care protections if he wins the presidential election. Speaking to reporters on Thursday in Madison, Wisconsin, Harris said [Read More…]

Photo Illustration by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images The number of cases in the E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has risen to 90, federal health officials said in an update on Wednesday. Cases [Read More…]

Royal Canadian Mounted Police (VANCOUVER ISLAND, CANADA) — Police in Canada said they have arrested six people and taken down an organized crime group believed to have produced tens of thousands of counterfeit cannabis-laced candy [Read More…]

Iuliia Burmistrova/Getty (NEW YORK) — A new study suggests that GLP-1 agonist medications like Ozempic, which are used for diabetes management and weight loss, may help reduce the risk of overdose and alcohol intoxication in [Read More…]

Bill Pugliano/Getty Images (BATTLE CREEK, Mich.) Hundreds of people gathered outside the WK Kellogg headquarters in Michigan on Tuesday calling for the company to hold up its promise to remove artificial dyes from its breakfast cereals sold [Read More…]

 Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nicole Hallingstad credits her cat, Rudy, with finding her breast cancer. Despite an unremarkable mammogram screening just seven months earlier, the 42-year-old knew something was wrong [Read More…]

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — People who were diagnosed with severe COVID-19 infections from the first wave of the pandemic could face double the risk of heart attack and stroke, a new study has [Read More…]

Paul Hennessy/Anadolu via Getty Images (ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) — Residents of St. Petersburg — on Florida’s central-west coast — were temporarily left without clean drinking water after a water main break occurred during Hurricane Milton. [Read More…]

Healgen (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first over-the-counter combination COVID-19 and flu test outside of emergency use on Monday evening. This means the Healgen Rapid Check COVID-19/Flu A&B Antigen Test [Read More…]

Jason Marz/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Georgia state Supreme Court reinstated the state’s six-week abortion ban on Monday after a lower court allowed abortions to resume in the state. The ruling goes into effect at [Read More…]

Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Lisa Newman, the chief of the section of breast surgery at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, sat down with ABC News to discuss breast cancer prevention, early [Read More…]