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Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Opioid overdose deaths in adolescents rose far more rapidly than the general population between 2019 and 2021, according to a new study of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [Read More…]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Health officials are warning Florida residents about a “large” outbreak of a potentially fatal bacterial illness known as meningococcal disease that’s primarily affecting gay and bisexual men. [Read More…]

Prapass Pulsub/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cases of several sexually transmitted diseases continued to increase during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new federal report. Published by the Centers for Disease [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House says extending the federal mask mandate for airlines and other forms of transportation is still possible despite urging from GOP lawmakers and transportation industry leaders to end the [Read More…]

Murat Taner/Getty Images (OKLAHOMA CITY) — It will now be a felony to perform an abortion in Oklahoma under a bill signed into law Tuesday by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt. The bill passed in the [Read More…]

Courtesy Cory Moses (NEW YORK) — A 27-year-old New York man can walk less than two years after being paralyzed when he was hit by a car while on a bicycle. Cory Moses, of Brooklyn, [Read More…]

Images By Tang Ming Tung/ Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Philadelphia has become the first major U.S. city to reinstate its indoor mask mandate, following an increase in COVID-19 infections, in recent weeks. Beginning April 18, [Read More…]

LeoPatrizi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — April 11-17, 2022, is Black Maternal Health Week, a time to put a spotlight on and have a national conversation about Black maternal health in the U.S., according to Black [Read More…]

yorkfoto/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — COVID-19 cases are rising in Los Angeles County as the BA.2 variant continues to spread throughout the United States. Data from the L.A. County Department of Public Health shows 1,088 new [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Despite a recent increase in COVID-19 breakthrough infections, an updated report illustrates the significant impact the nation’s vaccine campaign has had in preventing millions of virus-related deaths, hospitalizations and infections. [Read More…]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Clea Shearer, co-founder of The Home Edit, a home organizing company, announced she has breast cancer and shared a message encouraging women to be their own advocates when it comes [Read More…]

Daniel Knighton/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Being infected with COVID-19 raises the risk of developing serious blood clots, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers from Sweden, the United Kingdom and Finland compared [Read More…]

Darlene Foster (BOSTON) — A Massachusetts toddler who weighed just over one pound when she was born at 25 weeks is home after spending the first 19 months of her life hospitalized. Bradi Foster, of [Read More…]

Dominik Bindl/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Valerie Bertinelli is opening up about mental health. In a first-person essay published by New Beauty magazine on April 4, the actress and Food Network host revealed that her [Read More…]

Guido Mieth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — From sayings like “mommy juice” and “rosé all day” to happy hours, drinking is part of American culture, particularly for women. One thing that is less discussed though is [Read More…]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Being infected with COVID-19 raises the risk of developing serious blood clots, a new study suggests. An international team of researchers from Sweden, the United Kingdom and Finland compared more [Read More…]

ABC (BOULDER, Colo.) — Last September, Ryan Christoff found his then 16-year-old daughter barely breathing in their home near Boulder, Colorado. Little did he know at the time, but his daughter was suffering from an [Read More…]

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Tennis superstar Serena Williams is describing in her own words the life-threatening complications she faced while giving birth to her daughter, and how she advocated to save [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — April is Autism Acceptance Month, a time to embrace the differences of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental disability that impacts roughly one in 44 children in the [Read More…]

Courtesy Angie Carel (NEW YORK) — A mom of four from Indiana went from giving drawing prompts to her daughters to thousands of strangers online, inadvertently creating a community of what she describes as “amazing [Read More…]