(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning clinicians to remain on alert for measles cases due to a growing number of infections. Between Dec. 1, 2023, and Jan. 23, 2024, there have been 23 confirmed cases of measles including seven cases from international travelers and…
(NEW YORK) -- For years, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has been the most common reason infants are hospitalized in the U.S. and has hospitalized thousands of elderly people every year. After decades of trying to develop a vaccine, they became available ahead of this season for the first time for…
(ATMORE, Ala.) -- An Alabama man has become the first ever person executed via a new method, nitrogen gas, on Thursday. Kenneth Eugene Smith, 58, was sentenced to death for his alleged role in the 1988 murder of Elizabeth Sennett. Her husband, Charles Sennett, allegedly hired someone -- who, in…
(NEW YORK) -- With cold and flu season underway, some Robitussin products marketed for the relief of cough, flu and sore throat symptoms are being voluntarily recalled nationwide due to a microbial contamination, the consumer health company Haleon announced Wednesday. Eight lots of Robitussin Honey CF Max Day cough syrup…
(NEW YORK) -- A new study in Science is shining a light on the continuing impact of long COVID, with research revealing further and continuing health concerns for some of the 16 million sufferers in the U.S. Long COVID is a syndrome, or collection of symptoms, that continue or develop…
(NEW YORK) -- Children with hereditary deafness regained their hearing thanks to a type of gene therapy, a new study published on Wednesday found. In a clinical trial, co-led by investigators from Mass Eye and Ear, a specialty hospital in Boston, six children who had a form of genetic deafness…
(NEW YORK) -- A North Dakota state court denied a request to temporarily block the state's strict abortion ban on Tuesday. Plaintiffs challenging the ban had asked the court to allow doctors to resume performing abortions to preserve the life or health of a pregnant person, based on their "good-faith…
(NEW YORK) -- As a surge of respiratory viruses, including COVID-19 and influenza, continue to spread across the United States, experts are warning it could lead to a rise in cardiovascular complications. Weekly COVID hospitalizations are currently sitting at 32,861 for the week ending Jan. 13, lower than the week…
(NEW YORK) -- The Biden administration announced new steps Monday to expand access to contraception, abortion medication and emergency abortion care at hospitals on what would have been the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. It's the latest attempt by the federal government to preserve abortion access and protect reproductive…
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, is speaking out after revealing she has been diagnosed with malignant melanoma, her second cancer diagnosis within the past year. "Naturally another cancer diagnosis has been a shock but I'm in good spirits and grateful for the many messages of love and support," Ferguson wrote…
