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Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The overall number of births in the United States dropped in 2023 as teenage births reached a record low, according to new provisional federal data published early Thursday. In [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The nearly 30 million kids who eat meals at schools each day in the United States will soon see some changes to the food they are served. On Wednesday, [Read More…]

krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As federal agencies and state partners continue investigating outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — more commonly referred to as bird flu — the U.S. Food and Drug [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a first-of-its-kind procedure, a terminally ill patient has become the first person in the world to undergo a gene-edited pig kidney transplant and also [Read More…]

Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images (INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.) — People who attended a total solar eclipse event at a children’s museum in Indiana may have been exposed to measles, according to museum and health officials. An [Read More…]

USDA, Food Safety and Inspection Service (NEW YORK) — A public health alert has been issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service for ground beef products that may be contaminated [Read More…]

Christina Aleksanian (GRANADA HILLS, Calif.) — A mom-of-three in California is speaking out after surviving two near-death experiences in a span of six weeks. Christina Aleksanian, 36, of Granada Hills, was recovering in the hospital [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jazmin Evans is one of more than 14,000 Black kidney transplant candidates who found out that an outdated medical test may have inappropriately calculated their [Read More…]

ABC News Medical Correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton walks through Rock Creek National Park in Washington, D.C. with Walk with a Doc board member Chaun Hightower. (Paul Dougherty/ABC News) (NEW YORK) — A community health initiative [Read More…]

Texas Children’s Hospital (NEW YORK) — A 4-year-old girl was discharged from Texas Children’s Hospital on Thursday after waiting on the organ transplant waiting list for 1,025 days, or nearly 3 years. The staff at [Read More…]

Flavio Coelho/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Misty Stamm was working tirelessly to figure out the details: waking up early, the hourslong drives, booking hotels and finding doctors who could legally administer gender-affirming hormone therapy to [Read More…]

Carlos Duarte/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Two couples have filed lawsuits against in vitro fertilization provider Ovation Fertility alleging its clinic destroyed their embryos when a lab employee wrongly used hydrogen peroxide instead of a [Read More…]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heat-related emergency room visits increased in 2023 in the U.S. compared to previous years, according to new federal data. Between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023, there were a [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are evident in every state, even those with robust health systems, according to a new analysis from the Commonwealth Fund. In the [Read More…]

ABC (NEW YORK) — Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan sat down with ABC News Live to discuss the science and ethics of extending the human lifespan. In his new book, “Why We Die: The [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The New York Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has released a health advisory after multiple cases of human leptospirosis — an infection that is [Read More…]

Grace Cary/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A trade association is calling on melatonin makers to follow new guidelines on labeling and packaging for their products amid a rise in emergency room visits and calls to [Read More…]

CDC.gov (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — alongside the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and local and state health departments — is continuing to investigate after 19 people across nine [Read More…]

Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images (TOPEKA, Ks.) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed a ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth in the state. “This divisive legislation targets a small group of Kansans [Read More…]

Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — Drug shortages have reached an all-time high in the United States, pharmacists are warning. During the first three months of 2024, there were 323 active medication shortages, according [Read More…]