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Ana Maria Serrano/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — Jeopardy! contestant Christine Whelchel has been competing on the popular TV game show since last week but it wasn’t just her winning performances that have been capturing viewers’ attention. The piano teacher and church organist from Spring Hill, Tennessee, appeared without a light brown wig during Monday’s episode […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of births declined in the U.S. in 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic played a role, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday. Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics — a branch of the CDC — compared […]

Courtesy of Katelyn Sample (NEW YORK) — A Georgia mom is on a mission to spread joy and raise awareness after her 1-year-old son was diagnosed with uncombable hair syndrome, a hair disorder she’d never heard of until last year. The boy’s mother, Katelyn Samples, told Good Morning America that a stranger messaged her last […]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than 70% of Americans should be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new metrics outlined Friday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that represent a seismic shift in how the public health agency plans to measure COVID risk. Under the new metrics, more than […]

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some 70% of Americans will be able to remove their masks indoors, including inside schools, under new guidance to be released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday, two sources familiar with the plans told ABC News. Under the new metrics in the updated guidance, more than half […]

Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has closely followed what the United Kingdom had done to combat the virus from its early response to its vaccination rollout. Outbreaks in Great Britain have been harbingers of what’s to come in the U.S., and its policies have […]

ELISA WELLS/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time, medication abortion now makes up the majority of abortions in the United States, according to data released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights organization. According to the institute’s survey of known abortion providers in the U.S., 54% of abortions in […]

Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the United States faces a growing mental health crisis among young people, spurred on by the coronavirus pandemic, a nonprofit organization focused on mental health in schools is increasing its efforts thanks to a $15 million donation from Mackenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. Scott, who has […]

skaman306/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 vaccine guidance on Tuesday to recommend that some Americans over the age of 12 who have received a first mRNA vaccine dose, wait up to eight weeks before getting their second dose, instead of the previously recommended three to four. Several […]

JGI/Jamie Grill (ATLANTA) — Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. rose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial disparities that existed before the pandemic were perpetuated, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report looked at data from the CDC’s National Centers for […]