Health

IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — About 11.5 million Americans have received the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The booster was rolled out at the beginning of September with the Pfizer booster approved for those aged 12 and older and the Moderna booster approved for those […]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster for children aged 5 and older Wednesday. Story developing… Copyright © 2022, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Vaccine experts are pushing back on an analysis published by Florida’s surgeon general that warns COVID-19 vaccines increase the risk of cardiac-related deaths in young men, calling the study poorly designed and dangerously misleading. The warning against vaccines from Dr. Joseph Ladapo is the latest move by the state surgeon […]

March of Dimes/US Health Resources and Services Admin. (NEW YORK) — Maternal care is becoming increasingly difficult to access in the United States, according to a report released Tuesday by the March of Dimes, a nonprofit organization focused on improving the health of pregnant people and babies. More than a quarter of counties in the […]

Matteo Colombo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More evidence of polio has been detected in New York City wastewater, according to the state Department of Health. So far, only one case of polio has been identified, in a previously healthy 20-year-old man from Rockland County who developed paralysis in his legs, local officials said. As of […]

ABC News Photo Illustration (NEW YORK) — Influenza cases are rising in the United States as the country prepares for a potentially severe season. During the week ending Oct. 1 — the latest date for which data is available — there were 969 cases of influenza A and 52 cases of influenza B reported to […]

Austyn Evans/Texas Children’s Hospital (HOUSTON) — Carly Miller, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse in Texas, spent six months by the side of one of her most critically ill patients, a baby named Conrad. Now Miller, 27, a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, gets to spend the rest of Conrad’s life by his […]

bortonia/iStock (NEW YORK) — Shayla, a 22-year-old from Georgia, said she had days during the coronavirus pandemic when it was a struggle to get out of bed. The part-time college student said she was out of work for a time due to restaurants being closed during the lockdown, and in addition to the financial stress, […]

Tim Boyle/Getty Images (STURGIS, Mich.) — Abbott is announcing Friday their Sturgis, Michigan plant is restarting production of their largest and most popular infant formula, Similac. Previously, the troubled plant had only restarted a fragment of its production, after bacterial contamination concerns inside the facility had prompted a months-long voluntary recall and shutdown. The closure at […]

Courtesy Alex Sheats (NEW YORK) — A dad mourning the loss of his 26-year-old daughter is sharing an emotional message on mental health. David Sheats shared on Instagram that his daughter, Savannah Sheats, died by suicide. “I’ve been reluctant to express that, but I think it’s important,” he wrote in a message shared by another […]