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Products sold at the deli, especially those sliced or prepared at the deli, can be contaminated with Listeria. Image via CDC. (NEW YORK) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning Americans about a listeria outbreak that has sickened more than two dozen people across 12 states, possibly linked to deli meat. […]

Govind Sandhu, 38, is pictured finishing a half-marathon in Sydney, just prior to his cancer diagnosis. — @govindsandhu/Instagram (SYDNEY, Australia) — Govind Sandhu said he felt he was at “peak fitness” when he came down with flu-like symptoms, including a fever, night sweats and body aches, in mid-May. At the time he started feeling sick, […]

Isabella Strahan shared she is cancer-free after revealing she was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year. — Isabella Strahan/YouTube (NEW YORK) — Isabella Strahan is on her road to a full recovery! In a new update on Thursday from a video on her YouTube channel, the 19-year-old daughter of “Good Morning America” co-anchor […]

Ulrich Baumgarten via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Babies born to women who received a COVID-19 vaccine in their first trimester did not have a significant increased risk of birth defects, a new study found. For the study, published Wednesday evening in the journal The BMJ, researchers used national public health registries in Denmark, Norway […]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Facing high fines and potential jail time for providing abortions, Dr. Jennifer Smith, an OB-GYN in Missouri, has had to refer patients out of state. “I’ve had a patient bleeding through her clothes in the second trimester who had to drive to Illinois for care, because in Missouri, we couldn’t […]

bymuratdeniz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Francesca McGinn, a 16-year-old high school student from Chicago, struggled with her weight nearly her entire life. It wasn’t until late last year, after seeing a family member have success taking a medication for weight loss, that Francesca said she thought there could be a different way for herself. In […]

Science Photo Library – KTSDESIGN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Health care groups and advocates have long warned that the overturn of Roe v. Wade could pose wider threats to reproductive healthcare and that anti-abortion groups’ attacks on reproductive freedoms would not stop at abortion care. Those warnings materialized earlier this year when in vitro fertilization […]

Getty Images – STOCK (KANSAS CITY, Mo.) — This is a KFF Health News story. Abigail Arellano keeps her son Samuel’s medical bills in a blue folder in a cabinet above the microwave. Even now, four months after the 11-year-old was shot at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, the bills keep coming. There’s […]

ABC (NEW YORK) — Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down with the co-hosts of “The View” to discuss advising Former President Donald Trump during the pandemic’s peak, serving under seven presidents as NIAID director and the Latin phrase that has guided his work. Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases […]

DaniloAndjus/GETTY Images A number of social media influencers have begun spreading misinformation and discouraging followers from using sunscreen, but experts say sunscreen is a vital tool in protecting your skin, the body’s largest organ, from cancer. ABC News medical correspondent Dr. Darien Sutton joined “Good Morning America” on Friday to debunk some of the myths […]