Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Woman starts Facebook group to help protect other women amid rise in drink spiking
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A Facebook group started to help protect women from the dangers of drinks "spiked" with illegal drugs has gone viral with nearly 8,000 followers. The group was started by Melanie...
Nov 02, 2022
New York drug overdose deaths spiked by 68% during COVID pandemic
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Drug overdose deaths in New York state spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report from the state comptroller's office. The analysis, published Tu...
Nov 01, 2022
Racially segregated communities breathing in air three times more concentrated with dangerous toxins, researchers say
Olga Rolenko/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New research is shedding light on just how much higher proportions of dangerous toxins people in minority communities are breathing in. Populations in racially s...
Nov 01, 2022
Travel time to abortion facilities has quadrupled post-Roe, study finds
Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The amount of time women will have to travel to receive an abortion has quadrupled from about half an hour to nearly two hours since ...
Nov 01, 2022
Pfizer announces promising developments for first maternal RSV vaccine
ER Productions Limited/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After decades of researching respiratory syncytial virus, an illness especially dangerous for newborns and the elderly, scientists this week announced ...
Nov 01, 2022
FDA warns one type of amoxicillin, a common antibiotic for children, is in short supply
MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- One version of amoxicillin, a common antibiotic used to treat issues like ear infections in kids, is in short supply, according to the Food ...
Oct 31, 2022
Matthew Perry hopes his memoir will 'help a lot of people' battling addiction
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Matthew Perry lays bare his struggle with addiction in his new memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, and told ABC News' Good Morning America he "can't wait" for peo...
Oct 31, 2022
Flu-related hospitalizations highest in 10 years
Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images/STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Flu season is making an early comeback as flu-related hospitalizations are the highest in over a decade for this point in the season, according...
Oct 29, 2022
Police, firefighters had job with highest COVID death rates in 2020: CDC
Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Police officers, firefighters and other protection service employees had the occupation with the highest death rates from COVID-19 in 2020, new federal dat...
Oct 28, 2022
Family reveals ordeal of 2-year-old son in hospital with 3 viruses simultaneously
Courtesy of Ciara Jackson(MIDDLETOWN, Ohio) -- An Ohio family is speaking out to share their son's battle with three different viruses as respiratory infections spike in children across the country, f...
Oct 27, 2022
