(NEW YORK) -- As the U.S. welcomes spring, it also means the arrival of allergy season, which affects millions of people.High pollen levels can lead to a variety of symptoms including sneezing, runny nose, itchy and watery eyes, hives and coughing -- and Americans may have to deal with them…
(NEW YORK) -- Millions of Americans are still experiencing long COVID more than four years since the global COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic.According to the most recent federal Household Pulse Survey, between Jan. 9, and Feb. 5, 6.8% of U.S. adults currently have long COVID and 17.6% have had…
(NEW YORK) -- COVID-19 vaccines were found to cut the risk of heart failure by up to 55% and blood clots by up to 78% following COVID infection, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal.The positive health effects lasted for up to a year and were…
(NEW YORK) -- Medication abortion accounted for 63% of all the abortions performed in the U.S. in 2023, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute.In the first full calendar year following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in July 2022, approximately 642,700 medication abortions took…
(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden signed a sweeping executive order Monday promoting women's health research as the country continues to celebrate Women's History Month.The White House described it as the "most comprehensive set of actions" taken by a president to advance women's health research, which will focus on diseases and…
(NEW YORK) -- Cases of MIS-C are still occurring in 2023 and children who are unvaccinated or have waning immunity from previous vaccination are at the highest risk of developing the condition, according to a new federal report published Thursday.MIS-C, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, is a rare but…
(NEW YORK) -- Actress and model Christie Brinkley revealed she has been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, in an Instagram post featuring photos of her recovery from surgery."The good news for me is we caught the basal cell Carcinoma early," said Brinkley, 70, in…
(NEW YORK) -- What began as symptoms of fatigue for one Florida man became a life-changing cancer diagnosis at age 25.Jace, who asked that his last name not be used to protect his privacy, told ABC News' Good Morning America he attributed the fatigue he experienced in early 2023 to…
(SANTA FE, N.M.) -- A New Mexico man has died from plague in the state's first human fatality since 2020, according to health officials.The man lived in Lincoln County -- located in the southeastern part of the state -- and was hospitalized from the disease before dying, the New Mexico…
(CHICAGO) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sending a team to Chicago to help respond to the first measles cases detected in the city since 2019, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) confirmed to ABC News.Three cases of the highly infectious virus have been confirmed over…