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Marin Tomas/Getty Images/STOCK PHOTO (SCRANTON, Kan.) — Officials in Scranton, Kansas, suspect heat played a role in the death of a 2-year-old, who died after being found unresponsive in a car Sunday afternoon. It would mark the 14th hot car death this year, based on data from Kids and Cars Safety, a national nonprofit that […]

Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE (DALLAS) — A Dallas City Council committee passed a resolution Tuesday looking to limit the impact of Texas’s strict abortion law. The council’s Quality of Life, Arts, and Culture Committee voted to adopt the ordinance, which directs law enforcement to make investigating or prosecuting any allegation related to abortion […]

Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The U.S. is currently in a race to have the necessary tools and medicines to stop the growing spread of monkeypox, and it may be an uphill battle, according to one vaccine expert. Dr. Peter Hotez, the dean of the National School of Tropical […]

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Amid growing concerns over the potential threat of monkeypox, executives from Moderna said Wednesday they have initiated a research program to consider whether the company could create a monkeypox vaccine with mRNA technology. “We’re obviously very aware of the monkeypox concern and obviously very sensitive to recent announcements,” Moderna […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As monkeypox continues to spread across the U.S., the number of children infected with the virus is growing as well. At least five children have tested positive for monkeypox since July, including two each in Indiana and California. The other case was reported in an infant, a non-U.S. resident, who […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As monkeypox continues to spread across the U.S., the number of children infected with the virus is growing as well. Two children in Indiana recently tested positive for monkeypox, state officials announced late last week. Last month, federal officials confirmed that two other children in the U.S had tested positive […]

Photography by Daniel Light/Getty Images (FRANKFORT, Ky.) — Abortions have once again stopped in Kentucky after an appeals court reinstated two bans. One ban, a so-called trigger law — designed to go into effect after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in June — bans all abortions from the moment of conception. It also […]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Doctors and other health care providers are being warned to look out for symptoms of a virus that can cause seizures and severe illness in infants. Nearly two dozen infants were admitted to a Tennessee hospital this spring due to parechovirus, a virus that is especially dangerous for babies […]

Karen Ducey/Getty Image (NEW YORK) — At least four children in the U.S. have now tested positive for monkeypox, officials have confirmed. Amidst a growing emergence of cases across the country, state officials in Indiana confirmed late last week that two children had tested positive for monkeypox. At this time, no additional information has been […]

fstop123/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Indiana, has spoken publicly about the negative repercussions she’s faced for providing abortion care to a 10-year-old girl after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, giving states the power to regulate abortion. “It’s very fulfilling to serve people who need urgent medical help […]