Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
FDA approves first birth control pill for use without prescription
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 ...
Jul 13, 2023
Why MIS-C cases are dropping dramatically across the US: Experts
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 ...
Jul 13, 2023
Formerly conjoined twins go home after 6-hour surgery to separate them
Texas Children's Hospital(NEW YORK) -- Twin sisters who were born conjoined at the abdomen are now home, one month after a successful surgery to separate them. Ella Grace and Eliza Faith Fuller were d...
Jul 12, 2023
July has the highest number of drowning deaths. Here's how to prevent them
Owaki/Kulla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The month of July has seen the highest number of unintentional drowning deaths since 2018, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Jul 12, 2023
Regulators examine reports of self-harm, suicidal thoughts among people taking Ozempic, Saxenda
Lock Stock/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Regulators in Europe have launched a review after three people in Iceland experienced thoughts of suicide or self-harm after taking popular diabetes and weight los...
Jul 11, 2023
Dozens of beaches across Northeast closed for swimming due to high levels of bacteria in water
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 Massachuse...
Jul 10, 2023
Ambitious new campaign aims to reduce veteran suicide rate by half
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...
Jul 10, 2023
Amid mental health crisis, school teaches students how to help each other
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 a...
Jul 07, 2023
Hospital sees baby boom with quadruplets, eight sets of twins at once in NICU
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 i...
Jul 06, 2023
CDC says 1 in 4 Americans hadn’t had COVID by end of 2022
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 ...
Jul 05, 2023
