Health

Courtesy of Sean Tran of Elk Ridge Village Senior Living (NEW YORK) — At 102 years old, Jean Bailey is not slowing down. Bailey, an independent living resident at Elk Ridge Village, a senior living community in Omaha, Nebraska, has been leading fitness sessions for her neighbors since the COVID-19 pandemic first started in 2020. […]

Stephanie Nantel/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study has found that, amid record low infant mortality rates in 2020, rates of sudden infant death syndrome, known as SIDS, increased for the first time in five years, and there was a sharp increase in the rate of sudden unexpected infant deaths, or SUID, among Black […]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently sent a letter to Florida’s surgeon general debunking his claims about COVID-19 vaccines. Last month, Dr. Joseph Ladapo had written his own letter to the federal health agencies, saying he was concerned about adverse effects […]

Bryson Crenshaw, 4, is photographed with his family in December 2022. — Courtesy of Crenshaw Family (INDIANAPOLIS) — An Indiana family is speaking out to raise awareness after their 4-year-son developed a rare infection that led to the amputation of his right leg. The boy’s parents, Megan and Ben Crenshaw, said they thought their youngest […]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the United States saw COVID-19 cases and deaths rise around this past Christmas and New Year’s, many Americans feared the country was in for a third winter wave. But as quickly as both metrics went up, they also came down. Weekly cases and deaths in late winter 2022-23 […]

Jamal and Cierra Chubb (NEW YORK) — When Cierra Chubb looks at her phone, she said she’ll often see texts throughout the day from her husband with messages like, “I’m so glad you’re here.” That’s because at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, Chubb’s family did not think the 34-year-old mom of three from Lancaster, […]

SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s newest drug on the migraine market, Zavzpret (zavegepant) — the first and only migraine treatment of its kind to be offered in nasal spray. The drug has shown in clinical trial data to provide rapid pain relief in as fast […]

Getty Images/Roberto Jimenez Mejias (NEW YORK) — A nationwide shortage of the asthma medication albuterol has been ongoing since last fall and experts fear it’s only expected to get worse. Albuterol can be taken in several forms but it’s the aerosolized solution used in a nebulizer in hospitals that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration […]

Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a major effort to improve breast cancer prevention, the FDA will now require mammogram facilities to inform women if they have dense breast tissue. About half of women have dense breast tissue, and many don’t know it. Doctors say having dense breast tissue does not pose an immediate threat […]

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Moderna will keep its COVID vaccine on the market at no cost to consumers, even after the federal government stops paying for it, the company announced Wednesday. “Everyone in the United States will have access to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine regardless of their ability to pay,” the company […]