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Photo by Rafa Elias/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Depression rates in the United States are skyrocketing, particularly among young adults and women, a new poll shows. The survey, published by Gallup on Wednesday, found 29% [Read More…]

Steve Prezant/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One-third of survivors of gun violence said they lived in fear and felt unsafe, according to a new study by Everytown for Gun Safety. “I still, to this day, [Read More…]

Courtesy of Oregon Health & Science University (NEW YORK) — Doctors in Oregon recently set a Guinness World Record for discovering a spot of skin cancer that measured just 0.025 inches. The spot of skin [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the popularity of injectable weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy continues to rise, some users of the drugs are speaking out about the reality of the medications’ reported [Read More…]

xijian/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — May is Mental Health Awareness Month, with experts across the country raising alarms about a growing mental health crisis. Over 94 million Americans experienced symptoms of anxiety or depression in [Read More…]

RubberBall Productions/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study from the medical journal JAMA Network estimates there were 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans between 1999 and 2020. “Excess deaths” is an estimate of how [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A family of six spent the last year traveling the world together to take in as many sights as possible before retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder, causes total vision [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — People who are trying to lose weight should avoid using zero calorie non-sugar sweeteners, according to a new recommendation released Monday by the World Health Organization. Zero calorie non-sugar [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alerted doctors across the country Monday about the potential risk of new mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, cases, warning that [Read More…]

Dougal Waters/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the seasons change, our skin care needs change with it, so here are a few dermatologist-approved ideas to help switch up that regimen for summer. Dr. Rita Linkner [Read More…]

ABC News (BUDA, Texas) — Bandages, ice packs, aspirin and epinephrine have long been staples of nurse Dawn Baker’s public high school medical clinic in Texas. Now, she also stocks Naloxone to treat drug overdoses [Read More…]

Kevin Le (NEW YORK) — A Texas woman said she had to wait until she developed sepsis before physicians could provide her with life-saving abortion care. Texas has several abortion bans in place that prohibit [Read More…]

torispelling/Instagram (NEW YORK) — Actress Tori Spelling is sharing a warning with other parents about mold in their home after experiencing a “spiral of sickness” with her own children. Spelling, who shares five children with [Read More…]

LauriPatterson/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A patch that sits on a person’s skin could help reduce the risk of severe allergic reactions in toddlers with peanut allergies, according to the newly published results of a [Read More…]

Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Food and Drug Administration has dropped all restrictions specific to gay and bisexual men donating blood, a move long anticipated by public health experts and [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Medical and scientific experts advising the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously Wednesday in favor of allowing a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription. The vote could [Read More…]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the first guidance of its kind, the American Psychological Association (APA) has issued sweeping recommendations intended to help teenagers use social media safely. The guidance is primarily directed [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Medical and scientific experts advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have voted in favor of allowing a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription. “The large [Read More…]

ABC News (BURLINGTON, Vt.) — Jes Kraus was supposed to be going to the University of Vermont Medical Center every day for aggressive radiation and chemotherapy treatments to fight stage three colorectal cancer, for which [Read More…]

Courtesy Jonah Barrow (NEW YORK) — Nine months ago, near the end of August, Jonah Barrow, a high school senior, attempted to take his own life. Now, the 18-year-old from Katy, Texas, is speaking out [Read More…]