Health

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Scientists have made a distressing discovery on how global warming will affect known infectious diseases. Climate hazards are expected to aggravate 58% of all known human pathogens, according to a study published Monday in Nature Climate Change. That’s over half of infectious diseases discovered since the end […]

Science Photo Library/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As more states enact near-total bans and restrictions on abortion, providers say many patients are experiencing delayed care which can force them into later stages of pregnancy. Abortion care options are becoming more limited and complex in some cases, which often means higher costs for patients. For example, […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In early May, when the first cases of monkeypox surfaced in the United Kingdom and Europe, health officials in the United States advised Americans not to panic. There had been outbreaks of the rare disease before that had been controlled with testing and vaccines, and experts were optimistic an outbreak […]

Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An adult at an Illinois day care center has tested positive for monkeypox, and a number of children may have been exposed to the virus, health officials in Illinois announced on Friday. At this time, officials did not disclose the number of children that may have been exposed to the […]

Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Following its emergency authorization last month, just 7,300 doses of Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Americans across the country, newly updated data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals. According to John Brownstein, Ph.D., an epidemiologist at Boston Children’s Hospital and an ABC News […]

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amid growing calls from health officials across the country, the Biden administration declared the current monkeypox outbreak to be a public health emergency in the U.S. on Thursday afternoon. The declaration, which was made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, comes a little less than two weeks […]

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NAPA, Calif.) — Health officials are investigating a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in a northern California county. Twelve residents of Napa County have been diagnosed and hospitalized with the rare lung infection since July 11, according to Napa County Public Health. Among those, one person has died and three […]

Jamie Simoson (NEW YORK) — A Pennsylvania mom is sharing details of her son’s near-death experience to raise awareness of Powassan virus disease, a tick-borne illness. Jamie Simoson told ABC News’ Good Morning America that her 3-year-old son Jonny was swimming in June when she noticed a tick on his shoulder, which she said she […]

Sebastian Condrea/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal government took an initial step forward in its response to long COVID-19 Wednesday, releasing two reports that compile what federally-funded services are available to people already suffering from the condition, and what research efforts are still needed to better understand how to address it. “These are initial reports. […]

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Children as young as 9 years old have engaged in disordered eating behaviors, according to a new analysis published in JAMA this week. The analysis, which was published Monday and based on data from nearly 12,000 children, showed that 5% of children — both boys and girls — engaged […]