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Infant takes first breaths on her own after undergoing rare double lung transplant
XiXinXing/Getty Images(HOUSTON) -- A 6-month-old girl born with a life-threatening lung disorder is now breathing on her own thanks to a rare double l...
May 17, 2024
Major disparities exist in women of color's access to breast cancer care, report finds
Isaac Lane Koval/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A major new report shows stark disparities in breast cancer care, with non-white Americans and t...
May 16, 2024
Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, 1st decrease in 5 years: CDC
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Drug overdose deaths fell in 2023, marking the first decrease in five years, new provisional federal data publi...
May 15, 2024
Why a Texas divorce case could impact IVF care in the state
fstop123/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An acrimonious divorce between a Texas couple fighting over their frozen embryos could end up having an impact on i...
May 15, 2024
Canadian wildfire smoke preparedness: How to make a DIY air purifier
Brais Seara/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The damage of wildfires can expand far beyond the active blaze, as toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires crosses b...
May 14, 2024
KP.2 is now the dominant COVID variant. Experts say US may see a summer increase in cases
MoMo Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For the last few months, JN.1 has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, making up the ma...
May 13, 2024
Recipient of first pig kidney transplant dies nearly two months later
Rick Slayman being discharged two weeks after pig kidney transplant. - Massachusetts General Hospital(BOSTON) -- The 62-year-old man who received the ...
May 13, 2024
More than 100 kids left vulnerable to measles, polio after nurse falsified vaccine records
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(WEBSTER, N.Y.) -- An upstate New York nurse has been accused of falsifying vaccine records for more than 100 childr...
May 10, 2024
Hospice nurse's frank conversations on dying go viral
Julie McFadden, a hospice nurse in California, shares information about death on her TikTok account, @hospicenursejulie. -- @hospicenursejulie/TikTok ...
May 10, 2024
Mental health support at crucial point for fire survivors on Maui
ABC News(MAUI, Hawaii) -- For the thousands of people who survived the Maui fires last August, the trauma of what they lived through still lingers.Lah...
May 09, 2024