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Cavan Images/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — National vaccination coverage for kindergarteners during the 2020-2021 school year fell below the nationwide target of 95% coverage, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analysis. This [Read More…]

Eric Yang/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Almost half of Americans — 137 million people — are experiencing more days of “very unhealthy” and “hazardous” air quality than in the previous two decades combined, according to [Read More…]

HCA Healthcare’s Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children (NEW YORK) — A 1-year-old girl is back at home in Nebraska after receiving life-saving treatment in Colorado, including a surgery with magnets that helped connect a large [Read More…]

FatCamera/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Common prenatal tests done to test for genetic abnormalities are the subject of a new warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The FDA issued a notice Tuesday warning [Read More…]

Thana Prasongsin/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Confusion abounded after a federal judge in Florida struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s travel mask mandate Monday. The mandate, first announced in January 2021, required [Read More…]

Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After a federal judge struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s travel mask mandate Monday, several airlines and companies moved to act. All major airlines, including American, [Read More…]

duckycards/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a record number of Americans died from drug overdoses. Although months of data is still incomplete, statistics show that most of [Read More…]

Courtesy Aliesha and Chris Smith (SAN DIEGO) — A 2-year-old girl who spent the first two years of her life in the hospital is back home with her parents and younger brother in California. It [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As experts warn about the spread of COVID-19 misinformation in online parent groups, one mom is speaking out about how she inadvertently became an anti-vaccine influencer. Heather Simpson of Dallas, [Read More…]

iStock/NanoStockk (NEW YORK) — More than 8,000 nurses and health care workers in Northern California are planning a one-day strike Monday over staffing and other COVID-19-related concerns. The employees of Sutter Health, a health delivery [Read More…]

Rodin Eckenroth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Actor Brian Austin Green is opening up about his experience with ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease that affects the inner lining of the digestive tract. In a recent [Read More…]

InspectIR Systems (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 test that uses breath samples — the first of its kind to get the agency’s green light. The [Read More…]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For years, Maria Sylvia ignored a straight, brown streak that had appeared on her right thumbnail. The 25-year-old shared what it looked like in a TikTok video last month [Read More…]

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After the omicron wave of COVID-19 receded earlier this winter, states and cities across the country moved quickly to ease mitigation measures, leaving many officials hopeful that [Read More…]

Hannah Beier/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — By this fall, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its partner BioNTech could potentially have a COVID-19 booster that specifically addresses the omicron variant as well as its subvariants [Read More…]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images (KISSIMMEE, Fla.) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed into law a bill that bans nearly all abortions after 15 weeks, the same gestational limit currently being reviewed by the U.S. [Read More…]

Peter Brackney / www.kaintuckeean.com/Getty Images (FRANKFORT, Ky.) — The Kentucky state legislature has overridden Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill banning abortion after 15 weeks, along with several other abortion restrictions. Under the bill, [Read More…]

Wanda Irving (NEW YORK) — When Wanda Irving looks into the eyes of her 5-year-old granddaughter, Soleil, she said she instantly sees her daughter, Shalon Irving, whose death shortly after giving birth to Soleil has [Read More…]

Courtesy of Andrea Burns (KANSAS CITY, Kan.) — A Kansas teacher is raising awareness about a teaching method that she says is helping students tap into their mental health and learn how to manage their [Read More…]

Marcin Kilarski / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A college athlete who took time away from her sport to focus on her mental health is speaking out to urge coaches, schools, parents and fellow players [Read More…]