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IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly half of all adults in the United States plan to get the newly recommended COVID-19 vaccine, according to results from a survey released Wednesday. The latest poll conducted by [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While there is no specific test to determine if someone is experiencing long COVID, a new study published in Nature used blood tests to find new insight into what biological [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans say they’ve had long COVID, and some say they’re still battling it, according to new federal data. Two new reports, published early Tuesday by the Centers [Read More…]

Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal government program used for the last two winters to send free COVID tests to Americans’ homes started up again Monday. The government’s move comes [Read More…]

Elvira Laskowski/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — California’s controversial new CARE Court program, meant to address serious mental illness and the state’s homelessness crisis, will go into effect next week. Under CARE — which stands for [Read More…]

Icy Macload/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The overdose crisis has reached historic levels in New York City, according to new data from the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Provisional data shows there were [Read More…]

Philip Gould/Getty Images (LOUISIANA) — New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has signed an emergency declaration over an intrusion of saltwater into the Mississippi River that officials say could impact the water supply in the region. [Read More…]

MoMo Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weekly COVID hospitalizations have been ticking up over the past 11 weeks, rising to 20,538 for the week ending Sept. 9, the highest figures seen since March of this [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An independent panel of advisers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that everyone over the age of 6 months get the updated COVID vaccine this [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fertility treatments can be a very emotional process filled with complex decisions, including what to do with extra embryos. It’s a dilemma Ryann and Richard Hendrickson had to face. [Read More…]

Maskot/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration met Wednesday to discuss something that was once thought to be only science fiction: the use of artificial wombs to help premature babies survive. [Read More…]

Guido Mieth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study finds that people who tend to exercise early in the morning also tend to have healthier eating habits and lower weight. Although research is mixed on [Read More…]

Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal government program used for the last two winters to send free COVID tests to Americans’ homes will get up-and-running once again in the coming days, [Read More…]

Julia Naue/picture alliance via Getty Images (JACKSON, Miss.) — The number of babies born with syphilis in Mississippi has risen 10-fold over the last several years, according to a new report. Between 2016 and 2022, congenital [Read More…]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The smoke from wildfires in recent years has been so intense that it is decreasing air quality in the majority of the U.S., reversing some of the improvements made [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Jose Montijo sought treatment for shortness of breath, doctors realized he was experiencing heart failure. “They told me your heart is working at 20% and you are a [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The death of 43-year-old Billy Miller, an actor best known for his role in the soap opera The Young and the Restless, was due to suicide, his mother has [Read More…]

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 hospitalizations are continuing to climb in the United States, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the week ending Sept. 9, hospitalizations [Read More…]

Jason Dean/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a recall on approximately 58,281 pounds of raw ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination. American Foods Group and business operator Green Bay [Read More…]

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY (LONDON) — India’s southern state of Kerala is currently facing an outbreak of the rare, but potentially serious Nipah virus with at least two deaths so far, according to local reports. [Read More…]