Health

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the mpox outbreak first struck the United States over the summer, experts said it was mostly affecting minority men. But new federal data published Thursday shows that among the few hundred cases diagnosed in women — less than 3% of total U.S. cases — […]

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new study has identified a possible link between frequently checking social media and brain changes that are associated with having less control of impulsive behaviors among young adolescents. Using MRI brain scans, researchers at the University of North Carolina found that teens who frequently checked social media were […]

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization is warning that a new omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible strain to date. As COVID-19 hospitalizations rise in some parts of the Northeast — where the subvariant makes up about 75% of new cases, according to data from the Centers for […]

Stevica Mrdja / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Adele revealed she is suffering from a type of nerve pain while performing at her Las Vegas residency. In a video shared online, the 34-year-old singer is seen walking across the stage during a recent date of her Weekends with Adele residency at The Colosseum at Caesars […]

Courtesy Sabiha Aoudia (CHICAGO) — A 5-year-old in Chicago has overcome the odds to celebrate her fifth birthday. Now, her family is raising money for her to receive a life-changing surgery. When Alice Cloe was born on Nov. 22, 2017, she was unable to breathe on her own and later, doctors diagnosed her with a […]

Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Postal Service can deliver prescribed abortion medication, even in states where abortion access is severely restricted, the Department of Justice announced. The department’s Office of the Legal Counsel wrote in an opinion that pills being sent through the mail is not in violation of […]

Elisa Wells/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, many pregnant people living in states where abortion is now illegal are expected to turn to medication abortion, also known as the abortion pill. For now, it is still legal in most states to […]

Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — You may already be into Dry January, or you may be deciding to start now. Either way, the challenges of giving up alcohol for the entire month are real. Annie Grace, the author of The Alcohol Experiment, knows firsthand. In her mid-30s she was a high-level executive […]

Sorapop Udomsri / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you have been in a gym recently and spotted a person walking steadily on the treadmill at a very high incline, they could be following a viral workout trend. The “12-3-30” workout, the brainchild of social media influencer Lauren Giraldo, involves walking on a treadmill for […]

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For the past six years, the Mediterranean diet has won the title of best overall diet in U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of best diets. The diet is endorsed by the American Heart Association for its cardiovascular benefits. The diet was shown to reduce the […]