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ABC News (NEW YORK) — A growing number of states are lifting mask mandates in schools, but Education Secretary Miguel Cardona says that prematurely easing restrictions could lead to more issues for in-person learning. “We [Read More…]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told lawmakers on Tuesday that the pandemic has had a “devastating” impact on the mental health of America’s young people. “I’m deeply concerned as a [Read More…]

Adene Sanchez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Losing weight can be hard and confusing, but a new study has found an easy way to help. Adding just one hour or more of sleep a night can [Read More…]

Cappi Thompson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The drug overdose epidemic in the United States, now primarily driven by synthetic opioids like ultra-deadly fentanyl, costs the nation roughly $1 trillion a year, according to a new bipartisan [Read More…]

American Heart Association (NEW YORK) — Megan Corbin has been a dancer since the age of 5, performing professionally in musicals and in a Las Vegas show until right before the coronavirus pandemic. Considering she [Read More…]

iStock/Favor_of_God (NEW YORK) — Several states across the country are considering lifting mask mandates in schools in an attempt to return to some semblance of normalcy. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Delaware Gov. John [Read More…]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As new cases of COVID-19 decline across the country for the first time in weeks, the debate over face masks for kids is reaching a fever pitch. New Jersey [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Groundbreaking research by several top American medical centers has identified a COVID pandemic spike in cases of so-called “broken heart syndrome,” a potentially deadly stress-induced heart condition that doctors say [Read More…]

Maja Hitij/Staff/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo last year, star gymnast Simone Biles shined a light on the mental health struggles many Olympians face when she decided to withdraw from [Read More…]

Courtesy Chris Crouch (NEW YORK) — A couple in Texas have paid the ultimate tribute to a doctor who went above and beyond to help their family last year. Diana Crouch, 28, and Chris Crouch, [Read More…]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a new dashboard Friday that tracks COVID-19 in wastewater samples across the country. The data comes from the federal agency’s [Read More…]

Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It has been nearly two years since Patricia Dowd, a 57-year-old San Jose resident, died of the coronavirus, in early February 2020. Although the virus would soon [Read More…]

Carl Court/Getty Images (BEIJING) — For the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, officials have established a series of rules to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This will mark the second Olympics since the pandemic began, [Read More…]

Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise Law Firm (NEW YORK) — For Christmas two years ago, Jessica Harvey Galloway was gifted a home DNA test kit by her parents, mom Jeanine Harvey and her [Read More…]

Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Gay and lesbian adults are more likely to have been vaccinated against COVID-19 than heterosexual adults, federal officials said Thursday. A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and [Read More…]

Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans have purchased rapid COVID-19 tests online or at local stores and signed up to receive test kits through a free government program. Unlike [Read More…]

Montinique Monroe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over 50,000 customers are in the dark in Texas Thursday morning as a winter storm pummels the state with snow and ice. Here are safety tips to keep in [Read More…]

Leigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday relaunched the federal government’s cancer “moonshot” initiative, with the goal of cutting the death rate from cancer in half over the next quarter-century. [Read More…]

KoldoyChris/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Nearly two years into the coronavirus pandemic, children ages 5 and under are one step closer to being eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. Food [Read More…]

Al Seib / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For many parents of unvaccinated toddlers in the U.S., a return to normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic seems out of reach. Many have [Read More…]