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Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Americans are taking to the roads and to the skies as they travel to see family and friends for the holidays. While the holidays are being celebrated s...

Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 40% of street drug samples tested in Rhode Island contained the ...

Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Life expectancy in the United States has fallen to the lowest levels seen in 26 years, new federal data shows. Two new reports, published early Thursday ...

Morgan Miller/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- The wife of Olympic gold medalist skier Bode Miller is opening up about a health scare they faced with their 3-year-old son, one of the couple's eight children. Mo...

SimpleImages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Break out the gloves and hats: bitter cold is moving in, bringing what could be the coldest Christmas in decades for parts of the U.S. On Friday morning, the win...

James/Carbone/Newsday RM via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Over the past few weeks, reports have emerged of sporadic shortages of over-the-counter children's medications including Children's Tylenol, Motr...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the country faces a rise in COVID, flu and RSV, there is a testing kit that the FDA authorized in May that is one swab for all three viruses. The Centers for ...

Rainer Puster / EyeEm / Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- China is reporting its first deaths linked to COVID-19 in weeks as cases surge amid the country lifting many of its so-called "zero COVID" policies. T...

Carolina Gonzalez(NEW YORK) -- A Virginia girl will be able to celebrate the holidays this year with a bright smile on her face thanks to a life-changing surgery that she is believed to be the first p...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The White House's COVID-19 coordinator on Sunday said a sharp rise in cases and hospitalizations since Thanksgiving wasn't "totally" surprising -- and he reiterated that holida...