Health

ABC News (NEW YORK) — On wheels across the Mississippi Delta region, a group of three women is pulling up their sleeves and reaching underserved communities with free reproductive and sexual health care services. Dr. Caroline Weinberg founded Plan A, a mobile health clinic, to offer free sexual and reproductive services, including mammograms, pap smears, […]

Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Amidst the nation’s latest resurgence in COVID-19 infections, new forecast models used by the CDC show that daily hospital admission levels and new virus-related deaths in the U.S. are projected to continue increasing over the next four weeks. The forecast comes as a growing number of […]

Mifeprex (WASHINGTON) — A major producer of the abortion pill in the U.S. says it has ample supply if demand suddenly soars in the wake of a Supreme Court decision and that it’s working with federal regulators to make the drug available in pharmacies by the end of the year. “We are prepared for any […]

ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Camila Cabello is making the most of Mental Health Awareness Month by opening up about her own struggles, and encouraging her fans to do the same. In a new interview with Rolling Stone, the “Bam Bam” singer said she wants to continuing building these conversations in the […]

ABC News (ATLANTA) — Parents are being asked to look out for symptoms of hepatitis in their kids as an unexplained outbreak of cases in children continues across the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert Tuesday aimed at educating parents on symptoms. “Hearing about severe liver disease […]

Westend61/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the first time in the magazine’s 58-year history, the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue will feature a model who is showing her cesarean section scar. The empowering moment came together through a partnership between Frida Mom founder Chelsea Hirschhorn and the publication with the intention of celebrating all moms who […]

Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the nation looks ahead to a possible post-Roe v. Wade world in which abortion is banned in multiple states, medical experts warn there could be wide-ranging health and financial complications for women. As soon as next month, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority of justices is poised […]

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A growing proportion of COVID-19 deaths are occurring among the vaccinated, a new ABC News analysis of federal data shows. In August of 2021, about 18.9% of COVID-19 deaths occurred among the vaccinated. Six months later, in February 2022, that proportional percent of deaths had increased to more than […]

GIPhotoStock/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt were covering the Iraq War in 2006 and embedded with U.S. and Iraqi forces when an explosion nearly killed them. Woodruff and Vogt were severely injured and rushed to the hospital in Baghdad, the place where Woodruff met the medic […]

Liberty Hospital (LIBERTY, Mo.) — At one Missouri hospital, it’s going to be quite a baby bonanza soon. Ten nurses and one doctor at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri, are pregnant at the same time. And, in case you were wondering, none of it was planned and nothing’s in the water. “There’s a lot of […]