Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
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
Black and Native women had highest risk of maternal death in past two decades: Study
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 morta...
Jul 04, 2023
Beauty influencer wakes from coma, reunites with baby following aneurysm rupture
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 b...
Jul 03, 2023
Millions may soon lose Medicaid when they don't have to -- as one Florida family has already learned
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 Medicai...
Jul 01, 2023
Mom battles fungal meningitis after cosmetic surgery at Mexico clinic linked to deadly outbreak
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...
Jun 29, 2023
Madonna 'home and feeling better' after hospitalization for 'serious bacterial infection'
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 Ne...
Jun 29, 2023
Opioids are no better than a placebo for back pain: Study
Halfpoint Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Researchers in Australia have found that for low back pain sufferers in their mid-40s, opioids don’t mitigate pain any better than a placebo. Amon...
Jun 28, 2023
Former Missouri lawmaker Jason Kander featured in new documentary about PTSD treatment for veterans
Greenwich Entertainment(NEW YORK) -- Afghanistan War veteran Jason Kander says he was a few months into therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder when he realized, for the first time, that recov...
Jun 28, 2023
What is sleep apnea and how do CPAP machines help after it's revealed Biden uses a mask
Taylor Glascock/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House revealed on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has begun using a CPAP machine to deal with longstanding sleep apnea. "Sin...
Jun 28, 2023
DOJ announces 78 people charged over $2.5 billion in false health care billings
Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department on Wednesday announced a nationwide health care fraud crackdown that resulted in charges against 78 defendants in sep...
Jun 28, 2023
