Health

Felix Cesare/Getty Images (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 unsafe, the […]

DIGIcal/Getty Images (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 reminder to never […]

ABCNews.com (NEW YORK) — As federal data shows a rising mental health crisis among teens in the United States, one high school has decided to take a different approach to helping students. Officials at Alta-Aurelia High School, a public high school in Alta, Iowa, created teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA), a program that not […]

Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s Hospital (LOS ANGELES) — A hospital in California is experiencing a baby boom of multiples in its neonatal intensive care unit. Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children’s hospital in Los Angeles is currently caring for one set of quadruplets in its NICU, as well as eight sets of twins. The quadruplets were born on July […]

DuKai photographer/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — By the end of 2022, about one in four American adults and older teenagers still hadn’t contracted COVID-19, according to new federal data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking seroprevalence — antibodies in the blood — by collecting samples nationwide from blood donors between January […]

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Maternal mortality rates doubled for every race and ethnicity in the past two decades, according to a new modeling study. Researchers estimated maternal mortality rates — which includes the death of women occurring up to one year after the end of pregnancy per 100,000 live births — from 1999 […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Jackie Miller James, a beauty influencer who suffered a brain aneurysm while nine months pregnant, has woken up from a coma and reunited with her baby, according to her family. “We are beyond thrilled to share that your loving prayers for Jackie have been working!” […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Five-year-old Penelope Sapia was diagnosed with a rare disease at birth. Ever since then, her mother, Gillian Sapia, has had to become well-versed in the complex world of Medicaid enrollment — the only way the family affords the constant brain scans, kidney tests and seizure medications that Penelope needs to […]

ABC News (PHOENIX) — An Arizona woman is fighting for her life after contracting fungal meningitis following a plastic surgery procedure at a private clinic in Matamoros, Mexico. Alondra Lomas is one of nine confirmed cases of the life-threatening infection in an outbreak the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is tied to cosmetic surgery […]

File photo — KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Madonna is “home and feeling better” after her recent hospitalization, a source close to the pop star’s camp told ABC News on Thursday. The “Material Girl” singer’s manager, Guy Oseary, had initially shared in a statement posted to Instagram on Wednesday that she was recovering […]