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Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill that can be purchased without a prescription, will be available later this month online and in pharmacies for [Read More…]

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The brew of hot-button socio-medical issues litigated both in the public square and in the courts will “amplify the health care sector’s visibility as a potential target for [Read More…]

MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — People who are recovering from COVID-19 no longer need to remain isolated for five days after symptoms end, according to new guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [Read More…]

Heather Gay speaks with “Impact x Nightline’s” Deborah Roberts. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay made headlines recently after she lost more than 20 pounds [Read More…]

In this Jan 19, 2024, file photo, Joey Graziadei hosts an event in New York. — Stephanie Augello/ABC via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Bachelor star Joey Graziadei is opening up about the reason [Read More…]

Penny Rogers Photography/ Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, AL.) — Alabama state lawmakers introduced three new bills that aim to protect IVF treatments amid intense backlash over a state Supreme Court decision that caused several providers to [Read More…]

Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WESTON, Fla.) — The seventh case of measles linked to an outbreak at a Florida elementary school was confirmed by Health officials Tuesday. Broward County Public [Read More…]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill Monday that will eliminate school vaccine requirements for those who claim religious exemptions, but only for some schools. Last [Read More…]

Joe Sohm/Getty Images (MONTGOMERY, Al.) — More than a week after the Alabama Supreme Court upended in vitro fertilization access in the state with its ruling that frozen embryos are considered children, increasing public outcry [Read More…]

ABC News (MONTGOMERY, Ala.) — Dr. Beth Malizia, an Alabama physician, went through 12 years of training to provide patients with fertility care. But the doctor and co-owner of Alabama Fertility says her hands are [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — According to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers at Trinity College in Ireland used blood tests to measure certain biological markers and specialized brain images to discover [Read More…]

Courtney Perry/For the Washington Post (NEW YORK) — National MMR coverage has dropped 2% from the 2019-2021 school year to the 2022-2023 school year, which means approximately 250,000 kindergartners are at risk for measles infection [Read More…]

P Deliss/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly three million asthma attacks in children could be prevented by 2050 if the United States transitioned to electric vehicles and clean power, according to a new report published [Read More…]

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of measles cases linked to an elementary school outbreak in South Florida has risen to six. The outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston — [Read More…]

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of measles cases linked to an elementary school outbreak in southern Florida has risen to five. The outbreak at Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston — [Read More…]

Sorrasak Jar Tinyo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In operating rooms across the country, more and more diabetics are receiving amputations due to complications from type-2 diabetes. The life-altering procedures are more common among Black and [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Xolair as the first and only medicine for people with one or more food allergies after the clinical trial data for [Read More…]

Penpak Ngamsathain/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over the last several years, isolated outbreaks of measles have been popping up across the United States. Most recently, between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have [Read More…]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Lubin loves basketball, playing the drums and going to the gym. But until recently, his parents worried he wouldn’t live to see the age of 40. Lubin was [Read More…]

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first medication to treat severe frostbite on Wednesday. Aurlumyn, manufactured by Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc., is an injection to treat [Read More…]