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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…]

Getty Images – STOCK/David Sacks (DURHAM, N.C.) — As hospitals and health care facilities work to get back up and running after Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Big Bend, affecting several states, the medical supply [Read More…]

Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Breast cancer deaths have fallen by 44% compared to 35 years ago, saving nearly 520,000 lives, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society. The dramatic [Read More…]

pablohart/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the state is suing a hospital in Eureka for allegedly refusing emergency abortion care to women whose lives are in danger. The lawsuit, filed [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of kids dying from influenza in the 2023-2024 season has set a new record for a regular flu season, after one new death was reported last week, [Read More…]

Feldhaar Christian / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Carolina became the latest state to have a public health emergency declared by U.S. health officials in response to Hurricane Helene. In a press release on [Read More…]

CDC While the United States has made considerable progress fighting the HIV/AIDS crisis since its peak in the 1980s, headway has not been equal among racial/ethnic groups. Overall, HIV rates have declined in the U.S. [Read More…]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images, FILE (SILVER SPRING, Md.) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved the first new drug to treat people with schizophrenia in more than 30 years. Cobenfy, manufactured by [Read More…]

CDC/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY (NEW YORK) — A rise in rates of sudden unexpected infant deaths may have been linked to an off-season surge of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in 2021, according to a new study [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans can once again order free at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government starting Thursday ahead of the upcoming respiratory virus season. This is the third year in a [Read More…]

Leah Hope (NEW YORK) — A woman who lost over 200 pounds said she accomplished it by focusing not on the weight she was losing, but the life she was gaining. “I wanted to gain [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The journey to get pregnant can be a long road for many women, some of whom are sharing that they found unlikely help from an over-the-counter cough and cold [Read More…]

Courtesy of Dr. Meghan Martin (NEW YORK) — With autumn in full swing, flu season is ramping up as well. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, flu season in the U.S. typically [Read More…]