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Courtesy of Saliyl Dotson (NEW YORK) — Laura High has a brain tumor, but she says that’s not her defining characteristic. High is a stand-up comedian whose routine consists of jokes about being a millennial [Read More…]

Meaghan Skinner Photography/Getty Images (NEW  YORK) — Another day, another TikTok trend, and the most recent beauty craze comes in the form of calamine lotion. Content creators have been sharing videos of themselves using the [Read More…]

Martina Paraninfi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Smokers and vapers are more likely to have a severe case of COVID-19 or die of the disease, a new study finds. People who reported use of tobacco products [Read More…]

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images,FILE (NEW YORK) — Country music superstar Shania Twain is sharing new details about the health battle she says she faced due to Lyme disease. Twain, 56, said she thought she had lost [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The future of COVID-19 vaccines might not be shots in the arm or leg. Instead, picture a nasal spray or a patch stuck onto the skin for a few [Read More…]

STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A tampon shortage in the U.S. this summer has put a spotlight on menstrual product alternatives. Over the past several weeks, major retail chains across the country [Read More…]

Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States has one of the highest levels of monkeypox in the world, new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has revealed. The U.S. [Read More…]

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern. “The global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency [Read More…]

Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has confirmed the first cases of monkeypox in children, federal officials said Friday. The two cases are unrelated and were likely the result of [Read More…]

Roger Harris/Science Photo Library/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the New York State Department of Health announced a patient in Rockland County — north of New York City — had contracted polio, they revealed it [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid growing concerns over highly contagious omicron subvariants that are spreading around the country, Americans are set to have one more COVID-19 vaccine from which to choose. Earlier this [Read More…]

Fotosearch/Getty Images (BATON ROUGE, La.) — Louisiana’s attorney general said he wants cities that don’t enforce the state’s abortion laws to have their funding withheld. Louisiana was one of several states that had a trigger [Read More…]

Joseph Sohm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The first case of polio reported in the U.S. in nearly a decade was detected in New York state, health officials said Thursday. The case is in a resident of [Read More…]

Joseph Sohm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The first case of polio reported in the U.S. in nearly a decade was detected in New York state, health officials said Thursday. The case is in a resident of [Read More…]

Fabian Sommer/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When White House officials announced President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday, they revealed he was prescribed Paxlovid. Here’s what to know about the COVID-19 [Read More…]

Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — Students over the age of 12 will be required to receive COVID-19 vaccines this fall in Washington, D.C., the district’s Office of the State Superintendent of Education [Read More…]

Wesley Lapointe / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Protesters in several cities across the country are calling on the Biden administration, as well as local officials, to address the rapid rise in [Read More…]

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 cases are continuing to surge in New York City and unvaccinated residents are bearing the brunt. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that, as [Read More…]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images, FILE (ATLANTA) — A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found a significant increase in opioid overdose death rates among Black and American Indian/Alaskan Natives people in the US. [Read More…]

Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (HIGHLAND PARK, Ill.) — A therapy resource for people affected by the mass shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, is going viral, highlighting the [Read More…]