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Brandon Bell/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some of the operational deficiencies that helped trigger the massive shutdown of Abbott Nutrition's infant formula plant earlier this year have also been fo...

Craig Ruttle-Pool/Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- New York Gov. Kathy Hochul issued an executive order Friday in response to the growing monekypox outbreak in the state and declared it to be a "disast...

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) -- Amid the latest COVID-19 resurgence sweeping the nation, some top health officials are asking Americans to wear face masks again in an effort to curb ...

IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is preparing to roll out 171 million newly formulated vaccines this September as part of a $5B effort aimed at trying to blunt the imp...

Courtesy Raquel Rodriguez(NEW YORK) -- A Minnesota woman is sharing her health battle on TikTok, she says, in order to raise awareness and encourage women to advocate for themselves and their health. ...

Joseph Sohm/Getty Images, FILE(ALABANY, N.Y.) -- New York state's health commissioner declared monkeypox an "imminent threat to public health" on Thursday amid a rapid increase in cases. The declarati...

ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- With new cases of monkeypox emerging rapidly across the country, the Biden administration is weighing whether to declare the growing outbreak a pub...

Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A 66-year-old man who was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 is said to be free of both the HIV virus and cancer, following a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor f...

Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images, FILE(ATLANTA) -- Minorities are bearing the brunt of monkeypox cases in the United States, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. During a telem...

Mike Harrington/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the number of cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the United States, pregnant women are now among those affected. The first case of monkeypox in a pregn...