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Geo Piatt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ramon Benavides, 2022’s Texas Teacher of the Year, choked up, clutching his infant son as his mind raced with thoughts of the recent mass shootings in his home state. [Read More…]

Ray Kachatorian/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over the past decade, the number of children overdosing on melatonin, a sleep aid, has increased by 530%, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease [Read More…]

Sean Gardner/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Early in the pandemic, scientists and public health experts leaned on their experience with other viruses to make predictions about COVID-19, hopeful that when enough people developed immunity, the [Read More…]

Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — D.C. Health has reported the first positive orthopox case in a resident who recently traveled to Europe, and it sent samples to the Centers for [Read More…]

Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two weeks ago, federal health officials authorized COVID-19 boosters for children between ages 5 and 11. Doctors think it will be a challenge to get this [Read More…]

Justin Tallis – Pool / Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House is expecting vaccinations for kids under 5 to begin as soon as June 21, White House COVID coordinator Ashish Jha said on Thursday. [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products. The ban, which goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023, ends the sale of [Read More…]

AlasdairJames/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General is launching an audit into how the Food and Drug Administration responded leading up to the massive February recall of baby [Read More…]

Emily Fennick / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The rate of young people taking their own lives with firearms in the U.S. has increased faster than for any other age group, and the youth suicide [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the elderly have borne the brunt of the virus’ deadly wrath. Now, newly updated federal data shows that despite widespread vaccination among [Read More…]

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Pfizer announced Wednesday that it has completed its application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for a three-dose COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 6 months [Read More…]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of Americans traveled for Memorial Day weekend at levels not seen since before the onset of the pandemic. It marked a return to normalcy for many and a [Read More…]

Carol Yepes/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 cases in New York City have plateaued, signaling that the latest surge is at least slowing, if not over. An ABC News analysis of city data shows 4,204 [Read More…]

Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization said Monday it doesn’t believe the monkeypox outbreak currently spreading around the world will turn into a pandemic. Since May 13, at [Read More…]

alvarez/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that is possibly linked to two brands of organic [Read More…]

Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite widespread vaccination and several available treatments, the U.S. is recording as many COVID-19 cases now at the tail end of the omicron [Read More…]

JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of monkeypox continue to rise as a recent outbreak reaches countries in North America and Europe, where the disease is not commonly found. As of [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tuesday, May 24 marked yet another tragic day in America, after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in rural Texas, leaving 19 children and two teachers dead, [Read More…]

Marcus Mosely (NEW YORK) — A New York man who was born prematurely 27 years ago and spent 40 days in a neonatal intensive care unit says he plans to go back to the NICU, [Read More…]

Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sandy Austin was in her second year working as a school counselor in Colorado in 1999 when two students opened fire at Columbine High School in [Read More…]