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Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pfizer and BioNTech have launched a clinical trial on a vaccine targeting both COVID-19 and influenza, the companies announced Thursday. The phase 1 trial is being done [Read More…]

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of people with the respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, has surged, with cases hitting a two-year high, according to data by the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

Peter Dazeley/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of positive flu tests and hospitalizations in the United States is the highest in more than a decade, indicating this influenza season may be the most severe [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — A Facebook group started to help protect women from the dangers of drinks “spiked” with illegal drugs has gone viral with nearly 8,000 followers. The group was started by Melanie [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths in New York state spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the state comptroller’s office. The analysis, published Tuesday, found that fatalities surged [Read More…]

Olga Rolenko/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New research is shedding light on just how much higher proportions of dangerous toxins people in minority communities are breathing in. Populations in racially segregated communities in the U.S. [Read More…]

Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The amount of time women will have to travel to receive an abortion has quadrupled from about half an hour to nearly two hours since the [Read More…]

ER Productions Limited/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After decades of researching respiratory syncytial virus, an illness especially dangerous for newborns and the elderly, scientists this week announced a major development in plans for a possible [Read More…]

MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — One version of amoxicillin, a common antibiotic used to treat issues like ear infections in kids, is in short supply, according to the Food and Drug [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Matthew Perry lays bare his struggle with addiction in his new memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, and told ABC News’ Good Morning America he “can’t wait” for [Read More…]

Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — Flu season is making an early comeback as flu-related hospitalizations are the highest in over a decade for this point in the season, according to the Centers for Disease Control [Read More…]

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police officers, firefighters and other protection service employees had the occupation with the highest death rates from COVID-19 in 2020, new federal data shows. The report, published Friday by [Read More…]

Courtesy of Ciara Jackson (MIDDLETOWN, Ohio) — An Ohio family is speaking out to share their son’s battle with three different viruses as respiratory infections spike in children across the country, filling up hospital beds. [Read More…]

Sorrasak Jar Tinyo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Even though the number of people diagnosed with cancer each year remains roughly the same, recent medical advances mean that more people are surviving, and thriving, after being [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals across the United States say their beds are full as cases of respiratory viruses continue to increase among children. According to the Centers [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Immunocompromised patients who contract monkeypox can suffer devastating consequences, according to new federal data. A report, published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at 57 people [Read More…]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As summer ended and the United States headed into the fall and winter, doctors were worried Americans would see a “twindemic” — a situation in which both flu and COVID-19 [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster was rolled out at the beginning of September, only 19.4 million Americans have received it as of Oct. 19, according to data from [Read More…]

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As temperatures continue to increase worldwide, so do profound impacts on our health, including our mental health, according to a major report by almost 100 experts, including the [Read More…]

Courtesy Hannah Brand (NEW YORK) — A pediatric nurse from Nebraska is speaking out to share her daughter’s experience with RSV, a respiratory virus that is spiking among children, leaving many pediatric hospitals across the [Read More…]