Health

Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Digital mental health company BetterHelp is facing multiple potential class action lawsuits over claims from patients that it shared their personal information to advertisers — including Facebook. The lawsuits came soon after BetterHelp agreed in March to pay $7.8 million over charges from the Federal Trade […]

Guido Mieth/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — If you’re a female who loves fitness you may have heard the term “cycle syncing,” the idea that you should change up your workouts based on where you are in your menstrual cycle. The impact of the menstrual cycle in women’s sports has been prominent among professional athletes over […]

Courtesy Mayron Hollis (NEW YORK) — Mayron Hollis said she had just started taking contraceptives when she found out she was pregnant again a few months after giving birth in February 2022. Despite the surprise, Hollis and her husband say they were excited about the pregnancy and eager to add another child to their growing […]

ATU Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — While cases of COVID-19 and RSV were decreasing across the United States this spring, infections linked to another lesser-known respiratory virus were increasing. The percent of tests positive for human metapneumovirus (hMPV) surged to 19.6% for antigen tests and 10.9% percent for PCR tests at the beginning of March, […]

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — Sick workers were behind a plurality of foodborne illness outbreaks and caterers in the U.S., new federal data shows. In a report published Tuesday afternoon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looked at outbreaks across 25 state and local health departments from 2017 to 2019. They found […]

CDC (NEW YORK) — At least two Americans have died and 17 have suspected or probable cases of a potentially deadly infection linked to an outbreak at cosmetic surgery clinics in Mexico. The infected patients contracted fungal meningitis after having procedures under epidural anesthesia in Matamoros, Mexico — just across the border from Brownsville, Texas […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For people with Type 2 diabetes, could the time of day when you exercise have an impact on your blood sugar averages? A new study seems to suggest so. After studying more than 2,400 adults over a four-year period, researchers suggest that patients with Type 2 diabetes who exercise in […]

Courtesy Reanna Bendzak (NEW YORK) — A mom in Canada is sharing a warning about eating and drinking outdoors as summer approaches. Reanna Bendzak said she, her husband and their two children were at an outdoor barbecue in March when she gave her then-7-month-old daughter a piece of celery to chew on. “Our daughter was […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The landscape of abortion rights has shifted dramatically in the 11 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending federal protections for abortion rights. The decision left it up to states to decide how to regulate abortion services. States in the West and Northeast have since taken […]

SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (COLUMBIA, S.C.) — South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a six-week abortion ban into law Thursday, with it going into effect immediately. The new ban prohibits all abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, which generally occurs at six weeks of pregnancy, with limited exceptions, according to the ban. “With […]