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Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 hospitalizations among seniors are at least three times higher than any other age group, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Read More…]

juanma hache/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Santosh Pandipati has seen up close the impact of climate change on his personal and professional life. “I’ve taken care of patients who’ve had to flee wildfires,” the [Read More…]

ABC (NEW YORK) — Justice Brooks is 19 years old and a majority of his lifetime has been spent searching for a bone marrow donor. “I always knew that I had a medical condition and [Read More…]

Willie J. Allen Jr./Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A couple of months ago, the mpox outbreak seemed poised to overwhelm the United States. Cases were, in some instances, doubling every [Read More…]

Maskot/Getty Images (LONDON) — Racism and discrimination must be acknowledged as public health threats in the fight to address global health disparities, according to a new study. As part of the four-paper series published in [Read More…]

Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images (NEW YORK) — Céline Dion’s public announcement that she has a neurological disease is shining a spotlight on the rare condition known as stiff-person syndrome. In a taped video message shared to [Read More…]

Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across the country, parents are searching for solutions as demand for pediatric medications surges while over-the-counter medications, and a popularly prescribed antibiotic, are in [Read More…]

d3sign/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine chief, said he is well aware that COVID-19 booster uptake might be low for the latest shot, authorized by the government on [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Los Angeles County said Thursday it is holding off on issuing an indoor mask mandate amid rising COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. During a press conference, LA County Public Health Director [Read More…]

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (COLUMBUS, Ohio) — An ongoing measles outbreak in central Ohio has ballooned to 63 cases as of Thursday. Twenty-five children have been hospitalized. The state’s health system is also fighting the [Read More…]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (SILVER SPRING, Md.) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized bivalent COVID-19 boosters for children between the ages of 6 months and 4 years old Thursday. The booster, available from both [Read More…]

Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows how infectious mpox can be and how important vaccination was in reducing the outbreak over the summer. Last [Read More…]

Thomas Northcut/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether or not surgeons should provide additional warnings about the risks of Lasik, a popular corrective eye-sight surgery. In a draft guidance [Read More…]

patty_c/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Walgreens has launched a new delivery service for the COVID-19 oral antiviral therapy Paxlovid in partnership with DoorDash and Uber to get the treatment “directly to the doorsteps of those [Read More…]

Chris Rogers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Doctors should ask patients with heart failure if they’re using any supplements, specific diets, or other types of complementary and alternative medicines to help manage potential benefits and risks, [Read More…]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, vaccine for older adults could be on the horizon after Pfizer announced Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would fast-track review [Read More…]

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Kirstie Alley’s unexpected death at age 71 has put a spotlight on colon cancer, the disease that took her life. Alley had been recently diagnosed with colon [Read More…]

Nora Carol Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For a New Year’s resolution that lasts, start now, start simple and be specific. Almost half of all Americans make a New Year’s resolution each year, research shows. [Read More…]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States for both men and women, but women may not be receiving the same treatment, according to [Read More…]

ljubaphoto/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some schools across the United States have been closing early in an attempt to stem influenza outbreaks. In Maine, students at Casco Bay High School in Portland were dismissed early [Read More…]