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Jason Marz/Getty Images(COLUMBIA, S.C.) -- South Carolina's Supreme Court struck down the state's six-week abortion ban Thursday, claiming it violates the state's constitution. The 2021 so-called "hea...

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When the mpox outbreak first struck the United States over the summer, experts said it was mostly affecting minority men. But new federal data pub...

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The World Health Organization is warning that a new omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible strain to date. As COVID-19 hospitalizatio...

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new study has identified a possible link between frequently checking social media and brain changes that are associated with having less control of impulsive...

Courtesy Sabiha Aoudia(CHICAGO) -- A 5-year-old in Chicago has overcome the odds to celebrate her fifth birthday. Now, her family is raising money for her to receive a life-changing surgery. When Alic...

Stevica Mrdja / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Adele revealed she is suffering from a type of nerve pain while performing at her Las Vegas residency. In a video shared online, the 34-year-old singer ...

Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The United States Postal Service can deliver prescribed abortion medication, even in states where abortion access is severely restri...

Elisa Wells/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, many pregnant people living in states where abortion is now illegal are expected ...

CRISTINA PEDRAZZINI/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For the past six years, the Mediterranean diet has won the title of best overall diet in U.S. News and World Report's annual ranking...

Sorapop Udomsri / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- If you have been in a gym recently and spotted a person walking steadily on the treadmill at a very high incline, they could be following a viral work...