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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Jenny Mitchell said she first started using chemical hair-straightening products in 2000 when she was in third grade. Nearly two decades later, Mitchell, now 32, was diagnosed with uterine cancer, [Read More…]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — A surge in pediatric patients with respiratory illnesses is overwhelming hospitals across the United States, as experts warn of a potentially severe flu season in the coming months. Pediatric [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Many pediatric hospitals across the country are experiencing a surge in patients, and one of the main reasons, experts say, is an increase in cases of the respiratory virus known [Read More…]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the surge in children’s respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children’s hospital is considering installing a field tent to [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Feeding a baby is something a parent must do multiple times a day, every day, and yet it can be one of the most confusing and stressful things that [Read More…]

Elva Etienne/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The pandemic has taken a toll on all Americans’ mental health, but now, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 1 [Read More…]

IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing back on a claim made by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, who said on his show this week that a CDC decision [Read More…]

Courtesy Delia Chatwin (NEW YORK) — Carli Williams, of Texas, went from following an influencer on Instagram to crediting the woman with saving her life. Williams, 33, said she felt a small lump in her [Read More…]

Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (NEW YORK) — As the surge in children’s respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children’s hospital is considering installing a field tent to deal with the [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (FORT MYERS, Fla.) — Florida is seeing an increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, health officials said. The Florida Health Department has [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the omicron subvariant BA.5 continue to fall in the United States, the proportion of infections attributed to other omicron offshoots is [Read More…]

iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — As colder weather arrives and people head indoors in Europe, a COVID-19 wave may be looming on the continent — and could signal what’s to come for the United States. Data [Read More…]

Diego Cervo / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — About 2.55 million middle and high schoolers in the United States reported using e-cigarettes, an increase of 21.5% from those who reported using those products last year, [Read More…]

Kaitlin Preble (NEW YORK) — For the past decade, Kaitlin Preble of Tucson, Arizona, said she has gone to her local pharmacy each month to pick up her daughter’s prescription for methotrexate, a drug that [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the early days of the monkeypox outbreak in the United States, Hispanic and Latino men may have been disproportionately affected. While data from the CDC is limited and fewer [Read More…]

Europa Press/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than eight in 10 kids under the age of 17 have antibodies from a past COVID-19 infection, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Jillian Hughes, 33, of Washington, D.C., said she dealt with symptoms of anxiety for more than a decade before getting a diagnosis of and treatment for [Read More…]

David Espejo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Women in their 20s and 30s are taking to social media to share their breast cancer diagnoses and raise awareness of breast cancer in women under 40. “They’re just [Read More…]

Image Source via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than two dozen brands of cheese have been recalled in connection with a listeria outbreak that has left multiple people hospitalized, federal officials said. Old Europe Cheese [Read More…]

Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center (MELBOURNE, FL) — A pregnant Florida woman braved strong winds and potentially dangerous flooding to get to a hospital after she went into labor during Hurricane Ian. Hanna-Kay Williams, [Read More…]