Health

CARME PARRAMON/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Across the country, Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation that restricts transgender health care for minors. At least eight states have passed laws or policies restricting this care, and 23 more state legislatures are considering similar legislation of their own. Medical experts say that understanding transgender identities, gender dysphoria and […]

Hinterhaus Productions/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — More than 40,000 graduating medical students learned Friday where they will spend the next three to seven years of their medical training. With the United States grappling with a simultaneous shortage of primary care physicians and a rural health care crisis, many of the graduating students are set to enter […]

WLADIMIR BULGAR/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For Meredith Schorr, a registered nurse, working in the medical field during the coronavirus pandemic, took both a mental and physical toll. “I wasn’t thinking about how to integrate vegetables and fruit into my diet but rather, how am I going to save this person’s life,” Schorr, […]

Doug van Kampen, van Kampen Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sandwiches have long been a staple on American lunch menus, piled high with deli meats and toppings tucked between fluffy yet hearty bread. While there are certainly ways to make sandwiches more healthy, some may still kick nutrition to the curb. As the Wall Street […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new report suggests the virus that causes COVID-19 may be linked to raccoon dogs that were illegally being sold at a wet seafood market in China. First reported in The Atlantic, a team of scientists from around the world announced Thursday they believe the virus, SARS-CoV-2, originated at the […]

Shannon Fagan/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new double lung transplant technique was successful for two patients with lung cancer, Northwestern Medicine announced. The hospital said it’s leveraging that success into a new clinical program that will offer transplants to patients with end-stage lung cancer. “Every morning when I open my eyes, like, I just […]

rbkomar/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The number of new cases of babesiosis, a tick-borne illness, increased significantly between 2011 and 2019 in the United States, a new CDC report found. It’s also spreading consistently in three new states — now, the disease is endemic in 10 states in the Northeast and Midwest. The increase isn’t […]

Darwin Fan/Getty Images (SALT LAKE CITY) — Utah Gov. Spencer Cox has signed a bill into law banning abortion clinics in the state, making it the latest to restrict the procedure since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Cox, a Republican, signed H.B. 467 after it passed the state Senate on March 2 and […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates in the United States continue to rise and Black women continue to be most affected, new data shows. Deaths of women during and just after pregnancy have been steadily increasing over the past few years, according to a report published Thursday by the National Vital Statistics […]

Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A U.S. Food and Drug Administration analysis did not find a clear association between the COVID-19 antiviral drug Paxlovid and illness rebound, the FDA said in a new report. Rebound rates are around the same in people who took the drug and those who didn’t, […]