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xijian/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden’s administration plans to try to force private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical health services, improving upon a [Read More…]

Hannah Peters/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the U.S. Women’s National Team tries for a history-making third consecutive World Cup, the team’s focus will also be on a critically important cause, mental health. The cause [Read More…]

TravelCouples/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The amount of time that young people spend watching screens — instead of physical activity like sports, hikes or gardening — could be linked to health issues in adulthood, according [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In recent years, Ozempic and other similar drugs, called GLP-1 agonists, have grown in popularity for weight loss. However, doctors are now cautioning people against taking these medications before undergoing [Read More…]

taylorodlozil/Instagram (NEW YORK) — The death of a 30-year-old mom who battled ovarian cancer for eight years has put a spotlight on the deadly disease, and its impact on young women. Haley Odlozil’s death was [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Artificial intelligence, or AI, is continuing to expand into many areas of our lives and one of those is cancer detection. Researchers are using machine-learning to build tools in [Read More…]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the Women’s World Cup kicking off this week, the focus of the sports world turns to soccer — the most popular sport in the world and one [Read More…]

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The virus lab at the heart of the contentious debate around COVID-19’s origins has been cut off from U.S. funding opportunities for likely violating National Institutes of Health’s biosafety [Read More…]

Courtesy of Kelley Whitty (NEW YORK) — An Ohio mom says her 8-year-old daughter was injured by magnets from a reusable water balloon. Kelley Whitty of Morrow, Ohio, told ABC News’ Good Morning America her [Read More…]

Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In a move welcomed by advocates, a treatment for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis could soon become more accessible for millions of people worldwide. Although tuberculosis is uncommon in [Read More…]

Andrea Bryant applied for a Give A Mile flight to go see her mother who was in the hospital in Seattle. — Courtesy of Andrea Bryant (NEW YORK) — When Ileen Paden’s husband was diagnosed [Read More…]

The Houston Chronicle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Faced with an ongoing labor shortage, some 911 centers are rethinking how to hire and retain workers. From increasing base pay to fostering a culture that [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (AUSTIN, Texas) — Four women and an OB-GYN are expected to testify at hearings on Wednesday and Thursday as part of a lawsuit filed against the state of Texas over its abortion [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths involving both cocaine and opioids have spiked over the last decade, new federal data suggests. A new report published early Wednesday by [Read More…]

Chris Rogers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — We hear the word collagen a lot when it comes to supplements and skin care, but what is it, exactly? To answer all of our questions, we turned to [Read More…]

Courtesy of Sean Saifa Wall (NEW YORK) — When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall’s male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy. He says [Read More…]

AlesVeluscek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of people are dealing with extreme heat waves as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unhealthy levels. Jeff Goodell, a climate journalist, published a new book The Heat [Read More…]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Angelica Garcia’s high school crush, first love, and father of her two children died unexpectedly, she said, her life went into a free fall. The Los Angeles native [Read More…]

pablohart/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Emergency department visits involving cannabis increased for children, teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, new federal data suggests. A report published Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill in the United States that can be sold without a prescription Thursday. The progestin-only pill, called Opill, is [Read More…]