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Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images Pfizer released new data Tuesday showing its vaccine continues to reduce the risk of COVID-19 in children ages six months to 4 years-old. Unlike Moderna’s two-shot vaccine, Pfizer’s vaccine is given as three initial doses for in this age group — considered a “primary” series. Three doses were 73.2% […]

CasarsaGuru/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Marijuana and hallucinogen use among young adults has reached a new high. Use of marijuana and hallucinogens by 19- to 30-year-olds reached their highest levels since tracking began in 1988, according to a new Monitoring the Future panel study supported by the National Institutes of Health. In 2021, 43% said […]

fzant/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data published Tuesday. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, looked at death data for 2020, the last year for which complete data […]

Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Monkeypox has now been detected in all 50 states, health officials revealed. Wyoming became the final state to report a case of the disease on Monday. The Wyoming Department of Health announced the case in an adult male in Laramie County, which includes the capital of Cheyenne. Public […]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Cervical cancer is usually caused by human papillomavirus, a sexually transmitted infection so common nearly all sexually active men and women will get the virus in their lifetime, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite a widely available vaccine that prevents most types of HPV […]

Megan Varner/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As it gets harder to access abortion care because of state laws and restrictions, self-managed abortions may become more common, abortion providers told ABC News. Self-managed abortions are done by a pregnant person without the formal supervision of a healthcare professional, according to Guttmacher. In a pre-Roe era, self-managed abortions […]

SrdjanPav/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — It has now been two months since the start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout for the youngest Americans, and despite some initial enthusiasm from a select group of parents, the vast majority of children under the age of 5 remain completely unvaccinated. About 941,000 children, under the age of five […]

Cheney Orr/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Since the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June, several states have enacted strict abortion bans. At least 15 states have ceased nearly all abortion services and an additional four states have bans that have been blocked in court and are undergoing legal challenges. Despite an ABC […]

ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Some of New York City’s area have less than 60% of kids fully vaccinated against polio, according to data from the city’s Department of Health. Just last week, officials found traces of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater system. Officials believe the virus has been in the […]

STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new report is shining a spotlight on potential privacy concerns loopholes in apps that collect women’s personal health information following the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Abortion is now nearly banned in at least 15 states as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision on June 24 to […]