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@TrainWithJoan/Instagram (NEW YORK) — Joan MacDonald went from struggling with stairs to being a fitness influencer on Instagram with more than one million followers — and she did it while in her 70s. Her transformation [Read More…]

Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City began distributing free, at-home COVID-19 test kits across the five boroughs Monday. Tests, made by the company Flowflex, will be available at 27 [Read More…]

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for American Heart Association (NEW YORK) — Actress Susan Lucci is opening up about her battle with heart disease. The 75-year-old, best known for her role as Erica Kane on the ABC [Read More…]

Cristina Arias/Cover/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a new monoclonal antibody treatment for COVID-19, shown to hold up against the omicron variant and BA.2 subvariant. The drug, called bebtelovimab from [Read More…]

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday postponed its review of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5. “We realized now, in data that came in very [Read More…]

Noam Galai/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — About 4,000 New York City municipal workers are facing termination Friday for not being vaccinated against COVID-19. Less than 1% of the city’s workforce will lose their jobs if [Read More…]

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5 have not yet been authorized, but the U.S.’ rollout plan is already in the works. The federal government is prepping an initial 10 [Read More…]

Archershoots/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new federal report published Thursday has revealed the life expectancy of Americans in every state. Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics — a branch of the Centers [Read More…]

Rocky89/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Adding more plants to your diet can add years to your life, according to a new study. Researchers in Norway used computer models to compare a typical Western diet — [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A growing number of states are lifting mask mandates in schools, but Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says that prematurely easing restrictions could lead to more issues for in-person learning. “We [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told lawmakers on Tuesday that the pandemic has had a “devastating” impact on the mental health of America’s young people. “I’m deeply concerned as a [Read More…]

Adene Sanchez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Losing weight can be hard and confusing, but a new study has found an easy way to help. Adding just one hour or more of sleep a night can [Read More…]

Cappi Thompson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The drug overdose epidemic in the United States, now primarily driven by synthetic opioids like ultra-deadly fentanyl, costs the nation roughly $1 trillion a year, according to a new bipartisan [Read More…]

American Heart Association (NEW YORK) — Megan Corbin has been a dancer since the age of 5, performing professionally in musicals and in a Las Vegas show until right before the coronavirus pandemic. Considering she [Read More…]

iStock/Favor_of_God (NEW YORK) — Several states across the country are considering lifting mask mandates in schools in an attempt to return to some semblance of normalcy. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Delaware Gov. John [Read More…]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As new cases of COVID-19 decline across the country for the first time in weeks, the debate over face masks for kids is reaching a fever pitch. New Jersey [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Groundbreaking research by several top American medical centers has identified a COVID pandemic spike in cases of so-called “broken heart syndrome,” a potentially deadly stress-induced heart condition that doctors say [Read More…]

Maja Hitij/Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo last year, star gymnast Simone Biles shined a light on the mental health struggles many Olympians face when she decided to withdraw from [Read More…]

Courtesy Chris Crouch (NEW YORK) — A couple in Texas have paid the ultimate tribute to a doctor who went above and beyond to help their family last year. Diana Crouch, 28, and Chris Crouch, [Read More…]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a new dashboard Friday that tracks COVID-19 in wastewater samples across the country. The data comes from the federal agency’s [Read More…]