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Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Following its emergency authorization last month, just 7,300 doses of Novavax's COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Americans across the count...

Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With over 6,000 cases of monkeypox confirmed in the United States, including five children, the demand for the monkeypox vaccine is h...

Mike Kemp/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency as the number of cases continue to rise, the most i...

Rudy Sulgan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Amid growing calls from health officials across the country, the Biden administration declared the current monkeypox outbreak to be a public health emergency in...

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NAPA, Calif.) -- Health officials are investigating a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in a northern California county. Twelve residents of Napa...

Jamie Simoson(NEW YORK) -- A Pennsylvania mom is sharing details of her son's near-death experience to raise awareness of Powassan virus disease, a tick-borne illness. Jamie Simoson told ABC News' Goo...

Marin Tomas/Getty Images/STOCK PHOTO(SCRANTON, Kan.) -- Officials in Scranton, Kansas, suspect heat played a role in the death of a 2-year-old, who died after being found unresponsive in a car Sunday ...

Shelby Tauber/Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE(DALLAS) -- A Dallas City Council committee passed a resolution Tuesday looking to limit the impact of Texas's strict abortion law. The council's Quality ...

Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Children as young as 9 years old have engaged in disordered eating behaviors, according to a new analysis published in JAMA this week. The analysis, which w...

Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. is currently in a race to have the necessary tools and medicines to stop the growing spread of monkeypox, and ...