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Shannon Fagan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new double lung transplant technique was successful for two patients with lung cancer, Northwestern Medicine announced. The hospital said it’s leveraging that success into a new clinical program [Read More…]

Darwin Fan/Getty Images (SALT LAKE CITY) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a bill into law banning abortion clinics in the state, making it the latest to restrict the procedure since the Supreme Court [Read More…]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates in the United States continue to rise and Black women continue to be most affected, new data shows. Deaths of women during and just after pregnancy [Read More…]

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (AMARILLO, Texas) — A federal judge in Texas said Wednesday that he plans to rule soon on whether to overturn the federal government’s approval of an abortion medication [Read More…]

Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration analysis did not find a clear association between the COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid and illness rebound, the FDA said [Read More…]

Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Google is expanding use of its health care artificial intelligence, including helping detect diseases, such as cancer, earlier and answering medical questions. During the technology company’s annual The [Read More…]

ELISA WELLS/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images (AMARILLO, Texas) — A ruling is expected to come down from a federal judge in Texas Wednesday that could see an abortion medication being taken off the market in [Read More…]

ArtistGNDphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Social media users, online groups, and even celebrities like Martha Stewart, are touting CBD as a real aid for sleep, but some are beginning to wonder if the legal chemical [Read More…]

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (CHICAGO) — An Illinois man has been indicted for allegedly cheating the U.S. government out of millions of dollars for his pop-up COVID testing company and allegedly lied about test results. [Read More…]

Paul Yeung/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Recently, a review from the Cochrane Library set off a firestorm after headlines declared research published by the respected organization’s study found masks don’t work and don’t stop [Read More…]

Mensent Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Stratford Care USA, Inc has recalled 62 brands of Omega-3 supplements for cats and dogs over concern for “potentially elevated levels of Vitamin A,” according to a release from the [Read More…]

Natalia Gdovskaia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Following a diet rich in plant-based foods and seafood can help lower the risk of getting dementia, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal BMC [Read More…]

Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (AMARILLO, Texas) — A federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, sought to delay publicly divulging details about a major hearing on abortion rights set for Wednesday, telling lawyers involved [Read More…]

Tim Graham/Getty Images (WILMINGTON, N.C.) — The Environmental Protection Agency proposed its first-ever rule to reduce the prevalence of PFAS chemicals in drinking water Tuesday, taking the first step to require cities to test for [Read More…]

Courtesy of Sean Tran of Elk Ridge Village Senior Living (NEW YORK) — At 102 years old, Jean Bailey is not slowing down. Bailey, an independent living resident at Elk Ridge Village, a senior living [Read More…]

Stephanie Nantel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study has found that, amid record low infant mortality rates in 2020, rates of sudden infant death syndrome, known as SIDS, increased for the first time in [Read More…]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general debunking his claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Last month, [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the United States saw COVID-19 cases and deaths rise around this past Christmas and New Year’s, many Americans feared the country was in for a third winter wave. [Read More…]

SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s newest drug on the migraine market, Zavzpret (zavegepant) — the first and only migraine treatment of its kind to be [Read More…]

Getty Images/Roberto Jimenez Mejias (NEW YORK) — A nationwide shortage of the asthma medication albuterol has been ongoing since last fall and experts fear it’s only expected to get worse. Albuterol can be taken in [Read More…]