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Onyx Collective (NEW YORK) — Expectant mothers Shamony Gibson and Amber Rose Isaac both died from preventable childbirth complications, their families say, and the women’s deaths have had a devastating effect on their loved ones. [Read More…]

Courtesy of Anthony Di Laura and Jackie Cucullo (NEW YORK) — A New York man is determined not to give up when it comes to fighting the rare disease he’s been living with the last [Read More…]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When Kate Coleman found out she was pregnant, she was overjoyed, she said. She and her husband shared the happy news with family and friends. But three months later [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The new COVID-19 variant, called BA.5, has been rapidly spreading across the country and is now estimated to make up more than 60% of new cases, according to the CDC. [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (CHARLESTON, W.Va.) — Abortions in West Virginia can — at least temporarily — resume after a judge struck down a pre-Roe ban Monday. Following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade [Read More…]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of declining births during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of babies born may be rebounding in the United States, a new federal report finds. The report, published [Read More…]

JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Oncologists worry restrictions on abortions in Republican-led states after Roe v. Wade’s reversal could force pregnant cancer patients to delay critical treatments, like various chemotherapies. “This ruling is going [Read More…]

Courtesy Berardo Rivas (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval on Monday for Opzelura, which is the first topical JAK inhibitor cream for the treatment of vitiligo for people 12 and [Read More…]

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — American men are sicker and die earlier than men living in other developed nations, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a non-profit organization focusing on public [Read More…]

Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China. Facing yet another COVID-19 variant, this one said to [Read More…]

Phil Walter/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is investigating reports of women being denied vital medication for chronic medical conditions unrelated to abortion in states that have [Read More…]

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday his appointees to the President’s Cancer Panel, ABC News can exclusively reveal. The Cancer Panel is part of Biden’s Cancer [Read More…]

VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevailing theory was that if someone was infected with the virus, they were immune — at least for a while. But [Read More…]

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Americans will likely have one more COVID-19 vaccine to choose from after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday. [Read More…]

VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time since May, COVID-19-related hospital admissions are forecasted to increase again in the U.S., as highly infectious omicron subvariants continue to spread, according to updated forecasting models [Read More…]

SDI Productions/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Scientists at the nation’s top health agencies are looking into expanding vaccine eligibility so that more Americans can get a second booster shot during the latest COVID-19 wave, White House [Read More…]

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending nearly five decades of a precedent that protected the constitutional right to an abortion, there has [Read More…]

JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — A French-based pharmaceutical company announced Monday that it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to sell over-the-counter birth control pills in the U.S., making it [Read More…]

Corbis via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Health officials are once again raising the alarm about the threat of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections across the country, as concerns grow about the new omicron [Read More…]

Raychel Brightman/Newsday RM via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new report found a “statistically significant” excess of cancer cases among people of all ages living within a Long Island school district compared to similar [Read More…]