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krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act was passed, more than 600,000 adults in North Carolina are now eligible to receive benefits through an expansion of Medicaid [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For decades, doctors have encouraged patients to monitor their cholesterol levels, with studies showing that heart disease risk increases with high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), also known as [Read More…]

Kelly Livingston/ABC News (NEW YORK) — For Belinda Mosby, the nightmares started in March. Mosby had been working at Carelon Behavioral Health, one of the new 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline hotline centers in New [Read More…]

In this photo illustration, ZYN nicotine cases and pouches are seen on a table, Jan. 29, 2024, in New York. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — A type of nicotine pouches designed for adults [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (OREGON) — Oregon government officials have declared a 90-day state of emergency to address Portland’s growing fentanyl crisis. Gov. Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pharmaceutical company has presented new data for an experimental drug that they say can reduce acute pain, raising the possibility of an alternative to addictive opioids. In a [Read More…]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Elon Musk announced that his company Neuralink implanted a brain chip in a human in a preliminary clinical study. If research studies continue to look promising, devices like these could [Read More…]

SERGII IAREMENKO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — The Philadelphia Department of Public Health is warning that several people may have recently been exposed to hepatitis A at a grocery store. An employee at a ShopRite, [Read More…]

Bilanol/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning clinicians to remain on alert for measles cases due to a growing number of infections. Between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been the most common reason infants are hospitalized in the U.S. and has hospitalized thousands of elderly people every year. After decades of [Read More…]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (ATMORE, Ala.) — An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged [Read More…]

Haleon is voluntarily recalling eight lots of Robitussin Honey CF Max Day Adult and Robitussin Honey CF Max Nighttime Adult to the consumer level. CREDIT: FDA (NEW YORK) — With cold and flu season underway, [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study in Science is shining a light on the continuing impact of long COVID, with research revealing further and continuing health concerns for some of the 16 million [Read More…]

A still image taken from video of a study on gene therapy restoring hearing in children with hereditary deafness. (Mass General Brigham) (NEW YORK) — Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a [Read More…]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An Alabama man is set to be the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for [Read More…]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A North Dakota state court denied a request to temporarily block the state’s strict abortion ban on Tuesday. Plaintiffs challenging the ban had asked the court to allow doctors to [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As a surge of respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 and influenza, continue to spread across the United States, experts are warning it could lead to a rise in cardiovascular complications. [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Biden administration announced new steps Monday to expand access to contraception, abortion medication and emergency abortion care at hospitals on what would have been the 51st anniversary of [Read More…]

ABC News Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is speaking out after revealing she has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma, her second cancer diagnosis within the past year. “Naturally another cancer diagnosis has been a shock [Read More…]

Comezora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Thomas Wagner, founder of the biotech company Orbis Health Solutions and cancer researcher, has made it his life’s mission to find a way to treat cancer without the dreaded [Read More…]