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Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — While much of the country is relieved to move into a new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of families with young, unvaccinated children have looked on with frustration, feeling [Read More…]

Getty Images/Morsa Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — When the first coronavirus vaccines were shipped out across the country more than a year ago, millions of Americans waited eagerly for their turn to get a shot, hoping that [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The gap in COVID-19 vaccination uptake between rural and urban Americans is continuing to widen, a federal report published Thursday found. As of Jan. 31, 2022, 75.4% of people aged [Read More…]

Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as hospitals became overrun, a group of doctors began touting an anti-parasitic medicine called ivermectin as a viable treatment [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States marked a new stage in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that [Read More…]

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies, children are experiencing devastating consequences of being caught up in the war zone. At least seven children have been killed, according to [Read More…]

Courtesy of Sarah Granados (NEW YORK) — A North Carolina woman who had been unable to eat solid foods for over a decade due to a rare condition underwent a life-changing multiorgan transplant that gave [Read More…]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Wednesday released a sweeping new 96-page plan on COVID, marking a new era in the pandemic in which the virus is still circulating but [Read More…]

AlasdairJames/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use certain powdered infant formulas made at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, Michigan, facility amid an investigation into five infant illnesses. Previously, [Read More…]

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sandra Lee opened up on social media about the latest on her yearslong breast cancer journey, sharing the news with her 119,000 followers that she was going in for [Read More…]

Ana Maria Serrano/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Jeopardy! contestant Christine Whelchel has been competing on the popular TV game show since last week but it wasn’t just her winning performances that have been capturing viewers’ [Read More…]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of births declined in the U.S. in 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic played a role, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control [Read More…]

Courtesy of Katelyn Sample (NEW YORK) — A Georgia mom is on a mission to spread joy and raise awareness after her 1-year-old son was diagnosed with uncombable hair syndrome, a hair disorder she’d never [Read More…]

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With more scientists predicting COVID-19 boosters will be needed each year, some are now working on combining those with the annual flu vaccine. The idea, experts say, is a [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 70% of Americans should be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new metrics outlined Friday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that represent [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new guidance to be released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday, [Read More…]

Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has closely followed what the United Kingdom had done to combat the virus from its early response to its [Read More…]

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and mink breeder Peter Hindbo visit the closed and empty farm near Kolding, Denmark. – MADS NISSEN/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A year ago, Denmark culled thousands [Read More…]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Approximately 5.2 million children have lost a parent or caregiver during the pandemic, according to a new study published in The Lancet medical journal Thursday. An analysis by [Read More…]

ELISA WELLS/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time, medication abortion now makes up the majority of abortions in the United States, according to data released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, [Read More…]