Health

Ashlee Schwartz (FORT SMITH, Ark.) — Emily Robison was just 22 years old when she died last month due to complications from COVID-19, leaving behind a newborn daughter whom she never met. Robison, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was nearly seven months pregnant when she was hospitalized for COVID-19 in mid-August, according to her husband, Eric […]

zoranm/iStock (PRESIDIO COUNTY, Texas) — Americans remain deeply polarized over the renewed push to get the country vaccinated. Nowhere is such a divide more evident than in Texas, where the vaccination rates tend to vary drastically from county to county. Presidio County — a remote area of southwest Texas, home to approximately 7,800 people — […]

Rawpixel/iStock (NEW YORK) — Children can safely celebrate Halloween this year even as the coronavirus pandemic upends the holiday for the second straight year, according to the nation’s top infectious disease expert. White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN Sunday that kids can “go out there and enjoy Halloween,” an approach he […]

Jade Anderson/ABC News (NEW YORK) — Selma Blair is getting candid about living with multiple sclerosis in a new documentary. In Introducing, Selma Blair, the actress opens up about how she is embracing the disease and how she is feeling after undergoing a stem cell transplant in 2019. “At this moment, I’m great,” Blair told […]

ThitareeSarmkasat/iStock (NEW YORK) — For years, triple-negative breast cancer has been perceived as aggressive with little hope of treatment, but that thought appears to be changing among experts as more promising treatment options develop. “I would say that the future is bright for triple-negative breast cancer,” said Dr. Erica Mayer, a medical oncologist and senior […]

Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic (LOS ANGELES) — Shannen Doherty is sharing the reality of her cancer battle. The actress, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, revealed last year that the disease had returned, this time as stage four. In an Instagram post Thursday, Doherty wrote that she wanted to be open about her “personal […]

ABC (ST. PAUL, Minn.) — Laura Sosalla, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was declared legally blind earlier this year due to long-term effects after a battle with COVID-19 last November. Sosalla was determined and said she wanted to prove to herself that she wouldn’t let the impairment change how she lived her life. She decided to […]

PinkOmelet/iStock (NEW YORK) — A number of pediatric hospitals across the country are warning about an increase in the number of cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare condition in which different parts of the body, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs, become inflamed. MIS-C, which most often […]

Tempura/iStock (NEW YORK) — The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of the nation, according to a new study published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly journal, MMWR. The CDC said that social isolation, coronavirus-related deaths and stress weighed heavy on Americans, forcing many to confront new […]

sudok1/iStock (MONTREAL) — A mom who went viral while sharing her battle with ovarian cancer on social media has died. Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, 43, died on Oct. 5, according to Concordia University, where she worked as a neuroscientist and professor. “Nadia was a force of nature,” Concordia president Graham Carr said in a statement. “She […]