Health

Alysha Tagert, a Washington, D.C. based mental health therapist, shares a photo of a coping tool box for kids. – Courtesy Alysha Tagert (WASHINGTON) — As the United States enters a third year of the coronavirus pandemic, kids’ mental health continues to be a growing issue. Kids’ health, school and after-school activities continue to be […]

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the recent COVID-19 wave fueled by the omicron variant hit the U.S., no one expected it would lead to the number of deaths it did. As of Wednesday, the nation is reporting 2,200 new COVID daily deaths on average. While this is lower than the 3,400-peak seen last […]

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the recent COVID-19 wave fueled by the omicron variant hit the U.S., no one expected it would lead to the number of deaths it did. As of Wednesday, the nation is reporting 2,200 new COVID daily deaths on average. While this is lower than the 3,400-peak seen last […]

Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New Mexico and Virginia this week joined a growing number of states, cities and local communities that are going “mask optional” as omicron variant cases start to decline nationwide. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham lifted the state’s indoor mask mandates on Thursday and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on […]

Jennifer Graviss (NEW YORK) — A Tennessee family is speaking out to share memories of their 7-year-old daughter, who died Feb. 7, less than 72 hours after testing positive for COVID-19. “She was just a happy, healthy, normal, beautiful soul,” Jennifer Graviss said of her daughter, Adalyn. “She was just so sweet, an amazing kid.” […]

iStock/x-reflexnaja (NEW YORK) — The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use certain powdered infant formulas made at Abbott Nutrition’s Sturgis, Michigan, facility amid an investigation into four infant illnesses. Parents should discard any affected formula, according to the agency. Specifically, the FDA is advising consumers not to use Similac, Alimentum or […]

iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — Boosters helped reduce the risk of contracting the omicron variant after it spread at a convention in New York City, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday. In the report, the authors describe “a large indoor convention in New York … with approximately […]

Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for Fragrance Foundation (NEW YORK) — Linda Evangelista is sharing photos of herself several months after suffering from a cosmetic procedure that she alleges left her “brutally disfigured.” The legendary supermodel, 56, discussed with People what life has looked like for her after revealing last September that a cosmetic CoolSculpting procedure had […]

Joao Paulo Burini/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mosquitoes may be smarter than we think, and that could make getting rid of them and the diseases they carry even more difficult, according to new research. Scientists who studied two species of mosquitoes that spread diseases such as dengue, Zika and West Nile fever — Aedes aegypti […]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After months of unrelenting surges, COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are falling rapidly across the United States, a welcome reprieve for many Americans, who are hoping that the decline will herald the beginning of the end of a difficult two years and a return to a much-awaited normalcy. Although COVID-19 infections […]