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Sean Garnsworthy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Australian regulators announced in February that psychiatrists will be able to prescribe psilocybin and MDMA as medication for certain mental health con...

Noel Hendrickson/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned parents in a new report to thoroughly clean all infant feeding items to avoid bacterial contamination af...

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Increased time spent on social media is a risk factor for disordered eating, research shows. Andrea Vazzana, a child psychologist who specializes in the treatment o...

Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- COVID-19 call centers and testing sites are closing across the United States as more Americans look to move on from the pandemic and with the emergency dec...

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital(NEW YORK) -- An emergency room doctor is opening up about "one of the most interesting cases" she's seen in her career so far and, in the process, warning people ...

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- A couple has filed a lawsuit against a California-based fertility clinic alleging the clinic transplanted an embryo with a cancer mutation during in vi...

Samantha Desmond(NEW YORK) -- One baby got a special homecoming parade three months after he was born weighing only 1 pound and 15 ounces. Samantha Desmond, 28, of Peabody, Massachusetts, was only 25 ...

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An imminent ruling from a Texas federal judge could soon block the use of a common abortion medication across the United States, leaving one drug avai...

Tacoma Police Department/FaceBook(TACOMA, Wash.) -- Health officials in Washington state said they are set to arrest a woman Friday after they said she has been avoiding treatment or isolation for tub...

Richard T. Nowitz/Getty Images(JACKSON, Miss.) -- Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill banning puberty blockers, hormone therapy and surgeries for people under 18 in the state who are seeking ge...