(NEW YORK) -- As the surge in children's respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children's hospital is considering installing a field tent to deal with the influx of patients. Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford confirmed to ABC News it is in talks with the…
(FORT MYERS, Fla.) -- Florida is seeing an increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, health officials said. The Florida Health Department has reported 65 confirmed cases of Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, and 11 deaths so far this year as…
(NEW YORK) -- A New Jersey mom is on a mission to uncover more information that could shed light on a possible cancer cluster at her children's high school. Edyta Komorek, an environmental scientist, told ABC News' Good Morning America she was concerned her township was not doing enough to…
(NEW YORK) -- Women who use chemical hair-straightening products may be at a higher risk for uterine cancer, and Black women may be more affected due to their higher rate of use, according to a new study. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, found an association that…
(NEW YORK) -- Even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the omicron subvariant BA.5 continue to fall in the United States, the proportion of infections attributed to other omicron offshoots is rising. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, BA.5 currently makes up 67.9% of…
(NEW YORK) -- Nearly 30% of Americans living with diabetes who are uninsured may ration their insulin to save money, according to a new study. Researchers at Harvard Medical School, the City University of New York's Hunter College and consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen determined the prevalence of insulin rationing…
(NEW YORK) -- Racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be hospitalized with the flu in the United States, new federal data shows. A new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday looked at data from the 2009-10 through the 2021-22 flu seasons -- excluding…
(NEW YORK) -- An Illinois toddler is home for the first time and has reunited with his six siblings, after spending most of his young life in the hospital. Francesco, now 2, has a rare condition called platyspondylic lethal skeletal dysplasia, Torrance type, which affects his bone growth, especially in…
(NEW YORK) -- A United Nations report published Tuesday showed women's and children's health have backslid due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change. The report, titled Every Woman Every Child Progress Report, found that since 2020, rates of anxiety and depression, food insecurity and intimate…
(LONDON) -- The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. "We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients' lives is in our grasp," professor Ozlem Tureci told BBC News in an interview…
