(NEW YORK) -- When Angelica Garcia's high school crush, first love, and father of her two children died unexpectedly, she said, her life went into a free fall. The Los Angeles native said she struggled to cope; within months, she started using marijuana, then cocaine and methamphetamine. "I didn't have…
(ATLANTA) -- Emergency department visits involving cannabis increased for children, teens and young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic, new federal data suggests. A report published Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at visits for Americans under 25 years old throughout the pandemic and compared the data…
(NEW YORK) -- As heat waves persist and temperatures across the country continue to soar, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that emergency department visits nationwide have more than doubled in the last month. In the U.S., an estimated 2,891 out of 100,000 overall emergency department visits…
(NEW YORK) -- The Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill in the United States that can be sold without a prescription Thursday. The progestin-only pill, called Opill, is made by French drugmaker HRA Pharma and its parent company Perrigo and the approval is a first-of-its-kind move…
(NEW YORK) -- During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most misunderstood complications children were experiencing was MIS-C. MIS-C, or multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, is a condition in which different body parts can become inflamed -- such as the heart, lungs, brain and kidneys --…
(NEW YORK) -- Twin sisters who were born conjoined at the abdomen are now home, one month after a successful surgery to separate them. Ella Grace and Eliza Faith Fuller were discharged on Tuesday from Texas Children's Hospital, where they had been cared for in the neo-natal intensive care unit…
(NEW YORK) -- The month of July has seen the highest number of unintentional drowning deaths since 2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Provisional data shows that nearly 800 people died in 2022 from an accidental drowning. According to the CDC, in 2020, during…
(NEW YORK) -- Regulators in Europe have launched a review after three people in Iceland experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm after taking popular diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Saxenda. The review is being led by the European Medicines Agency's Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee out of an abundance…
(NEW YORK) -- Beaches in several states across the Northeast have recently been closed to swimmers due to high levels of bacteria in the water. Numerous beaches in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island were closed by public health officials due to unsafe water quality. "When the water quality is…
(WASHINGTON) -- Every day, Andre Rush, a retired Army officer and former White House chef, does 2,222 pushups. And every day, he thinks about what that number symbolizes: a tribute to the military veterans who die daily from suicide. Rush's ritual is more than just a tribute, however. “It's a…
