(NEW YORK) -- It has been over a month since COVID-19 vaccines became available to children as young as six months, but with millions of kids still without a shot, officials continue to face an uphill battle in their push to get the youngest Americans vaccinated. Since the shots were…
(NEW YORK) -- Some moms are opening up this July during Disability Pride Month and shining a light on a topic they feel gets overlooked and is often viewed negatively by others in society. Natalie Hadley of Omaha, Nebraska, posted on LinkedIn in honor of her son Ranier, who lives…
(NEW YORK) -- Cities and counties throughout the United States are considering reinstating mask mandates as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise. In Los Angeles County, 8,091 new infections were reported on Friday, the latest date for which data is available, according to the Department of Public Health. This…
(NEW YORK) -- In the 30 days since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the abortion landscape in the United States has dramatically changed. The 5-4 decision was related to a Mississippi law that banned abortions after 15 weeks. Chief Justice John Roberts voted with the majority to uphold…
(NEW YORK) -- Well before the Supreme Court ruled in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, 9% of abortions in the U.S. were obtained by people who had to travel out of state, according to data released Thursday by the Guttmacher Institute, a policy organization that supports abortion rights. That…
(NEW YORK) -- The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of monkeypox to be a public health emergency of international concern. "The global monkeypox outbreak represents a public health emergency of international concern," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a briefing in Geneva Saturday. At the virtual press conference,…
(ATLANTA) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has confirmed the first cases of monkeypox in children, federal officials said Friday. The two cases are unrelated and were likely the result of household transmission, federal officials confirmed to ABC News. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky first disclosed the cases in an…
(NEW YORK) -- When the New York State Department of Health announced a patient in Rockland County -- north of New York City -- had contracted polio, they revealed it was a case of vaccine-derived polio. Vaccine-derived poliovirus is different than poliovirus that originated in the wild which spreads naturally…
(NEW YORK) -- Amid growing concerns over highly contagious omicron subvariants that are spreading around the country, Americans are set to have one more COVID-19 vaccine from which to choose. Earlier this week, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) signed off on use of Novavax's COVID-19…
(BATON ROUGE, La.) -- Louisiana's attorney general said he wants cities that don't enforce the state's abortion laws to have their funding withheld. Louisiana was one of several states that had a trigger law banning abortion that would immediately go into effect upon the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade,…
