Health

Andrea Bryant applied for a Give A Mile flight to go see her mother who was in the hospital in Seattle. — Courtesy of Andrea Bryant (NEW YORK) — When Ileen Paden’s husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and began showing signs of dementia, she knew she couldn’t give him the care he needed at […]

Courtesy of Sean Saifa Wall (NEW YORK) — When Sean Saifa Wall was 13, a doctor recommended to his mother that Wall’s male-typical genitals be removed and that he begin feminizing hormone therapy. He says his late mother agreed to the surgery and treatment, but Wall adds that his mother picked the wrong gender for […]

Chris Rogers/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — We hear the word collagen a lot when it comes to supplements and skin care, but what is it, exactly? To answer all of our questions, we turned to Dr. Brandon Richland of Orange County. What is collagen? “Collagen is the most abundant protein found in the human body, […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Drug overdose deaths involving both cocaine and opioids have spiked over the last decade, new federal data suggests. A new report published early Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System between 2011 and […]

AlesVeluscek/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Millions of people are dealing with extreme heat waves as climate change continues to raise temperatures to unhealthy levels. Jeff Goodell, a climate journalist, published a new book The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet, that examines how damaging the increased heat waves are […]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (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 the tools […]

pablohart/Getty Images (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 to a 2019 […]

Tim Grist Photography/Getty Images (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 were […]

Isabel Pavia/Getty Images (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 by federal […]

Yanukit Raiva / EyeEm/Getty Images (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 — […]