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EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New research on the connection between sleep and Parkinson’s disease is being hailed as a “first step” toward curing and preventing the condition, a brain disorder that causes uncontrollable movements. [Read More…]

David McGlynn/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over 120,000 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled over possible E.Coli contamination. The affected products come from Lakeside Refrigerated Services, located in Swedesboro, New Jersey, and were [Read More…]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As mask mandates are lifted, and mitigation measures are increasingly dropped across the nation, a stark reality continues to hinder the nation’s return to a pre-pandemic sense of normality. Hundreds [Read More…]

Alease Daniel/TikTok (NEW YORK) — By day, Alease Daniel works with embryos, eggs and sperm in a laboratory as an embryologist at a North Carolina fertility clinic. Outside of the lab, Daniel, 26, breaks down [Read More…]

Scott Olson/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Life expectancy in Chicago fell by nearly two years during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in line with national trends, a new report finds. The data, released Monday [Read More…]

VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — A new CDC analysis estimates that at least three out of every five Americans have antibodies that indicate a prior COVID-19 infection. Prior to the omicron-fueled surge in [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For years, doctors recommended people in their 50s start taking baby aspirin every day to protect against heart attacks and stroke. But in recent years, with new evidence of [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 100 million Americans have received their first COVID-19 vaccine booster dose, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Boosters first became available in [Read More…]

David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While top U.S. health officials are urging some Americans to get yet another coronavirus booster shot, local health departments across the country are grappling with a [Read More…]

Natalie Allport/Instagram (OTTOWA, Ontario) — Natalie Allport, a 28-year-old CrossFit athlete, stays in shape with an unlikely workout partner, her 84-year-old grandmother. Allport, of Ottawa, Canada, said she started bringing her grandmother, Juanita Arteaga, to [Read More…]

L’Oreal Thompson Payton, left, speaks with Dr. Meggie Smith, a fertility specialist. – ABC News (NEW YORK) — More than 6 million women of childbearing age in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or [Read More…]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, called the recent ruling by a Florida judge striking down the federal mask [Read More…]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (LONDON) — A rise in hepatitis cases among children is under investigation by experts. Some recent reports from the U.S., U.K., and EU health organizations including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control [Read More…]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Firearms surpassed car accidents as the No. 1 killer among children and teens, according to startling new data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday. [Read More…]

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the public health agency is looking into a cluster of hepatitis cases among children. According to a [Read More…]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When a judge on Monday overruled the mask mandate on public transportation, parents with kids too young to be vaccinated felt renewed anxiety about the country moving too quickly toward [Read More…]

ArtBoyMB/Getty Images (AUGUSTA, Maine) — A Maine resident has died from a rare but potentially dangerous tick-borne illness, health officials said. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it has confirmed a [Read More…]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (SAN FRANCISCO) — Dozens of high school students in California contracted COVID-19 after attending their prom. San Mateo High School held the party on April 9 at the Asian Art Museum in [Read More…]

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…]