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Bsip/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new immunization to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday. The approved drug [Read More…]

ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — A new heat wave has left 60 million people across 13 states under heat alerts Thursday. Record or near-record high temperatures are possible Thursday in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Baton Rouge, [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden recently announced his administration’s plans to push private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical health services, improving upon a [Read More…]

FS Productions/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to a new analysis published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal. Although the disease is still [Read More…]

Reza Estakhrian/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After several months of steady declines, COVID-19 hospitalizations appear to be ticking up again. For the week ending July 22, hospitalizations rose 12% from the previous week from 7,165 to [Read More…]

d3sign/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over 1.7 million women, nearly 3% of women of reproductive age in the United States, live in a county without access to abortion and with no access to maternity care, [Read More…]

FS Productions/Getty Images (FLORIDA) — Cases of leprosy are rising in Florida, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Although the disease is still rare in the U.S. — with just 159 cases [Read More…]

Fusion Medical Animation, Unsplash (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration announced Monday it is forming a new Office of Long COVID Research and Practice to study the condition and help those who have been diagnosed with it. The [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Georgia resident has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. Health officials said in [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Georgia resident has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba, according to the state’s Department of Public Health. Health officials said in [Read More…]

Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study is sounding the alarm about a rise in alcohol-related deaths, especially in women. The investigation, published by JAMA’s Substance Use and Addiction on July [Read More…]

Martina Paraninfi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Doctors are increasingly discouraging people from using e-cigarettes given the mounting evidence about the significant negative health impact of vaping– even as a smoking cessation tool. For current smokers, “there [Read More…]

rbkomar/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A red meat allergy caused by tick bites is an “emerging public health concern,” according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) [Read More…]

Dayton Children’s Hospital (NEW YORK) — Doctors in Ohio performed a groundbreaking surgery to separate conjoined twins, the first of its kind due to the twins’ age and the complexity of their condition. When the [Read More…]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A pill for postpartum depression led to meaningful improvements in depression symptoms, according to a late-stage study published Wednesday in The American Journal of Psychiatry. The pill, zuranolone, [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — When many people think of autism and an initial diagnosis, they think of children. A growing number of adults are learning they have autism, and their condition has gone untreated for [Read More…]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Several routine childhood vaccines require multiple doses to be effective, but a new study finds children are not receiving all of them. The study, published in the journal Pediatrics Wednesday, [Read More…]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fetal mortality rates declined among Black women in 2020 but were much higher than other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S., new federal data shows. A report, published early Wednesday [Read More…]

Courtesy of Mallory (BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) — The first baby has been born from a transplanted uterus, outside of a clinical trial, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Monday. UAB said the birth occurred via [Read More…]

Jason Dean/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a dozen people across four states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Sixteen people in [Read More…]