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Owaki/Kulla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The month of July has seen the highest number of unintentional drowning deaths since 2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provisional data shows that [Read More…]

Lock Stock/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Regulators in Europe have launched a review after three people in Iceland experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm after taking popular diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Saxenda. [Read More…]

Lock Stock/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Regulators in Europe have launched a review after three people in Iceland experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm after taking popular diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Saxenda. [Read More…]

Felix Cesare/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Beaches in several states across the Northeast have recently been closed to swimmers due to high levels of bacteria in the water. Numerous beaches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and [Read More…]

DIGIcal/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Every day, Andre Rush, a retired Army officer and former White House chef, does 2,222 pushups. And every day, he thinks about what that number symbolizes: a tribute to the military [Read More…]

ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — As federal data shows a rising mental health crisis among teens in the United States, one high school has decided to take a different approach to helping students. Officials at Alta-Aurelia [Read More…]

Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Hospital (LOS ANGELES) — A hospital in California is experiencing a baby boom of multiples in its neonatal intensive care unit. Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s hospital in Los Angeles is currently caring for [Read More…]

DuKai photographer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — By the end of 2022, about one in four American adults and older teenagers still hadn’t contracted COVID-19, according to new federal data. The Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates doubled for every race and ethnicity in the past two decades, according to a new modeling study. Researchers estimated maternal mortality rates — which includes the [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jackie Miller James, a beauty influencer who suffered a brain aneurysm while nine months pregnant, has woken up from a coma and reunited with her [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five-year-old Penelope Sapia was diagnosed with a rare disease at birth. Ever since then, her mother, Gillian Sapia, has had to become well-versed in the complex world of Medicaid enrollment [Read More…]

File photo — KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Madonna is “home and feeling better” after her recent hospitalization, a source close to the pop star’s camp told ABC News on Thursday. The “Material [Read More…]

Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Among the study’s participants, the placebo gave [Read More…]

File photo — KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Madonna has been discharged after several days from a hospital intensive care unit and is now recovering from a “serious bacterial infection,” according to [Read More…]

Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Among the study’s participants, the placebo gave [Read More…]

Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House revealed on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has begun using a CPAP machine to deal with longstanding sleep apnea. “Since 2008, the President has disclosed his [Read More…]

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a nationwide health care fraud crackdown that resulted in charges against 78 defendants in separate schemes that totaled more than $2.5 billion in [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Montana judge permanently struck down a law making it more difficult for transgender people to change their sex on their birth certificate and held the state health department [Read More…]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new analysis from Consumer Reports found that some heavy metals in baby food have been on the decline but the report argues more can be done to make baby [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For Emma Goidel and Ilana Caplan, building a family using assisted reproductive technology was never going to be easy, but the couple says they never imagined the financial costs they’d [Read More…]