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Jorge Lemus/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The collapse of Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin during Monday night’s NFL game between the Bills and Cincinnati Bengals with millions watching at home is bringing cardiac arrest, [Read More…]

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time ever, an annual ranking of best diets now includes diets that work best for the whole family. The flexitarian, Mediterranean and TLC diets [Read More…]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the ball dropped at midnight on New Year’s Eve, some people took their last sip of alcohol for the next 31 days in a New Year’s challenge known as [Read More…]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Welcome to GMA’s New Year, Best You. As we ring in 2023, we are sharing everything you need to start the new year strong. From keeping your New Year’s [Read More…]

Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you’re feeling hungover from New Year’s Eve champagne or had one too many boozy eggnogs over the holidays, let this January be a fresh start. Taking [Read More…]

lacaosa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The ketogenic diet, described as “Atkins on steroids” for its focus on foods high in fat and low in carbohydrates, is an increasingly popular diet, with more than 25 million [Read More…]

Anthony Kwan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week it would require a negative COVID-19 test from all travelers arriving to the U.S. from China as well as those [Read More…]

Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Several schools are bringing back mask mandates to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. In New Jersey, two school districts said students will be required to [Read More…]

Courtesy of Carolyn Rogers and Patti Rogers Harris (NEW YORK) — Two sisters are celebrating a very special anniversary this year: the 50th anniversary of one donating her kidney to the other. Usually organ transplants, [Read More…]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — A congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s review process for an Alzheimer’s treatment found that the agency “deviated” from its standard procedures to approve the Aduhelm drug [Read More…]

Courtesy of Ally Maderer (BUFFALO, N.Y.) — When the historic Buffalo, New York, storm stranded nurses at home, they turned to a stranger in a snowmobile club to give them an unconventional ride to work. [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — One reporter decided to get personal on air in order to give hope to others who may need it. Diane Pathieu said she was told her husband Nick Adamski only [Read More…]

Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While most people can keep up with their New Year’s resolutions through the first days of January, it is those days and weeks throughout the rest of the [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Tamara Walcott, a 38-year-old mother of two from Columbia, Maryland, said that if anyone had told her five years ago she’d be a world champion powerlifter, she would have laughed. [Read More…]

Ekaterina Goncharova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Danish concept of “hygge,” or “coziness,” can help fend off the seasonal blues. Spending time with loved ones and creating a cozy ambience with scents, lighting and sounds [Read More…]

adamkaz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The new year is less than a week away and, for some, that may come as a relief. The holiday season can be stressful for many with all the planning, [Read More…]

Ekaterina Goncharova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As parents and caregivers try to cope with the spread of flu, RSV and COVID-19 in what health experts are calling a “tripledemic,” some may look online for treatment [Read More…]

Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans are taking to the roads and to the skies as they travel to see family and friends for the holidays. While the holidays are being celebrated semi-normally [Read More…]

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Life expectancy in the United States has fallen to the lowest levels seen in 26 years, new federal data shows. Two new reports, published early Thursday by [Read More…]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Break out the gloves and hats: bitter cold is moving in, bringing what could be the coldest Christmas in decades for parts of the U.S. On Friday morning, the wind [Read More…]