Health

Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images/STOCK (NEW YORK) — Flu season is making an early comeback as flu-related hospitalizations are the highest in over a decade for this point in the season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There have been an estimated 880,000 cases of lab-confirmed influenza illnesses, 6,900 hospitalizations and 360 flu-related deaths nationally […]

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Police officers, firefighters and other protection service employees had the occupation with the highest death rates from COVID-19 in 2020, new federal data shows. The report, published Friday by the National Center for Health Statistics — a branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — looked at […]

Courtesy of Ciara Jackson (MIDDLETOWN, Ohio) — An Ohio family is speaking out to share their son’s battle with three different viruses as respiratory infections spike in children across the country, filling up hospital beds. It all started when the Jackson family, from Middletown — about 35 miles north of Cincinnati — returned from vacation […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Immunocompromised patients who contract monkeypox can suffer devastating consequences, according to new federal data. A report, published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at 57 people who were hospitalized with severe cases of the disease between Aug. 10 and Oct. 10. Almost all the patients had […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some hospitals across the United States say their beds are full as cases of respiratory viruses continue to increase among children. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, infections due to respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, have spiked by 69% over the last […]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster was rolled out at the beginning of September, only 19.4 million Americans have received it as of Oct. 19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The booster is designed to protect against the omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, […]

skaman306/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As summer ended and the United States headed into the fall and winter, doctors were worried Americans would see a “twindemic” — a situation in which both flu and COVID-19 spread at the same time. But experts told ABC News the country may now be facing the threat of a […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Jenny Mitchell said she first started using chemical hair-straightening products in 2000 when she was in third grade. Nearly two decades later, Mitchell, now 32, was diagnosed with uterine cancer, despite having no family history of the disease. She said she had no choice but to undergo a full hysterectomy […]

LA County Sheriff’s Office (NEW YORK) — With Halloween one week away, some parents are wondering whether they need to be extra cautious when it comes to their kids’ trick-or-treat hauls this year, given recent warnings about illicit drugs being found with candy packaging. The good news: Experts say there’s no need to be overly […]

Courtesy of Dare Adewumi (NEW YORK) — After the pandemic hit the U.S. in early 2020, Chris Pernell, MD was on TV screens across the country, emerging as a leading voice on COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on people of color. Earlier this year, backed by more than 100 New Jersey state leaders, Pernell — University Hospital’s […]