(NEW YORK) -- If you’re feeling hungover from New Year’s Eve champagne or had one too many boozy eggnogs over the holidays, let this January be a fresh start. Taking the challenge of going dry in January, or Dry January, i.e. having no alcohol for the entire month, is one…
(NEW YORK) -- The ketogenic diet, described as “Atkins on steroids” for its focus on foods high in fat and low in carbohydrates, is an increasingly popular diet, with more than 25 million posts about it on Instagram alone. If you’re looking to start the trendy diet in the New…
(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced this week it would require a negative COVID-19 test from all travelers arriving to the U.S. from China as well as those from Hong Kong and Macau. It comes as China experiences a surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations after…
(NEW YORK) -- Several schools are bringing back mask mandates to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. In New Jersey, two school districts said students will be required to wear face coverings indoors upon returning from winter break. Paterson Public Schools, which serves abut 25,000 students from…
(NEW YORK) -- Two sisters are celebrating a very special anniversary this year: the 50th anniversary of one donating her kidney to the other. Usually organ transplants, such as kidney transplants, last 15 to 20 years if the organ came from a living donor, according to the National Kidney Foundation.…
(WASHINGTON) -- A congressional investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's review process for an Alzheimer's treatment found that the agency "deviated" from its standard procedures to approve the Aduhelm drug with inconsistent data. Aduhelm is notable for being the first drug in recent years approved to treat the underlying…
(BUFFALO, N.Y.) -- When the historic Buffalo, New York, storm stranded nurses at home, they turned to a stranger in a snowmobile club to give them an unconventional ride to work. Ally Mederer, an ICU nurse at Buffalo General Medical Center, spent days trapped in her house during the deadly…
(NEW YORK) -- One reporter decided to get personal on air in order to give hope to others who may need it. Diane Pathieu said she was told her husband Nick Adamski only had a year to live. That was two years ago. Pathieu, who is a reporter with Chicago…
(NEW YORK) -- While most people can keep up with their New Year's resolutions through the first days of January, it is those days and weeks throughout the rest of the year that can catch up with even the best of intentions. So how do you make your New Year's…
(NEW YORK) -- Tamara Walcott, a 38-year-old mother of two from Columbia, Maryland, said that if anyone had told her five years ago she'd be a world champion powerlifter, she would have laughed. This year, Walcott won the title for the heaviest raw deadlift in the world by a woman…
