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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…]

Rybelsus (NEW YORK) — Drugs used for diabetes and weight loss like Ozempic and Wegovy were found to be effective for weight loss when taken as a pill, according to research published over the weekend. [Read More…]

Wachirawit Jenlohakit/Getty Images (SARASOTA, Fla.) — Five people caught malaria locally in the U.S. for the first time since 2003, according to health officials. Four people in Sarasota County, Florida, and one person in Cameron [Read More…]

Wachirawit Jenlohakit/Getty Images (SARASOTA, Fla.) — Five people caught malaria locally in the U.S. for the first time since 2003, according to health officials. Four people in Sarasota County, Florida, and one person in Cameron County, [Read More…]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As a pediatrician, Dr. Kristina Lehman knows the ins and outs of the evidence around breastfeeding better than most. But as a mother, she also knows that breastfeeding is [Read More…]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shortly after a Tennessee trigger ban on abortion went into effect last September, a group of maternal fetal medicine specialists, family planning physicians, bioethicists, neonatologists and a lawyer gathered to [Read More…]

Center for Pregnancy Choices of Meridian (NEW YORK) — For the past year, Michelle Colon, a reproductive health advocate in Jackson, Mississippi, has not been able to bring herself to drive past the Pink House. [Read More…]

Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The latest caffeinated beverage craze has made many young consumers eager for a drink, which has prompted a new alert for parents. Prime, a beverage brand [Read More…]

ABC News Photo Illustration / Alex Gilbeaux (NEW YORK) — Dr. Nicole Teal, a maternal fetal medicine specialist, had just finished her training in North Carolina, when she was offered a good position in the [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine for older adults could soon be available after an advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted [Read More…]

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Infants eligible for a measles vaccine should receive one prior to international travel, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said amid rising cases of the highly contagious disease [Read More…]

Martina Paraninfi/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Monthly e-cigarette sales skyrocketed during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between January [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Despite their onboard oxygen tank expected to be depleted sometime Thursday morning, one doctor says they may have more time if the passengers are still alive. He estimates the five [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Saturday marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to an abortion. As a result, [Read More…]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the one-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court approaches this weekend, several states are taking efforts to further strengthen abortion rights and [Read More…]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued an advisory Wednesday warning about identifying mental health symptoms and conditions linked to long COVID. Long COVID occurs when [Read More…]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A majority of OBGYNs say the overturning of Roe v. Wade last summer is linked to more maternal deaths, according to a new survey released early Wednesday from KFF. The [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Novo Nordisk, the pharmaceutical company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy, filed multiple lawsuits Tuesday against off-brand versions of the wildly popular drugs. In a press release, the company announced [Read More…]