Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Biden to announce appointees to Cancer Panel, part of initiative to cut death rate
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday his appointees to the President's Cancer Panel, ABC News can exclusively reveal. The Cancer Panel ...
Jul 14, 2022
Experts reveal how likely reinfection is from COVID with spread of omicron subvariant BA.5
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevailing theory was that if someone was infected with the virus, they were immune -- at least for a while. But a g...
Jul 14, 2022
FDA authorizes Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in US
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Americans will likely have one more COVID-19 vaccine to choose from after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use...
Jul 14, 2022
COVID hospitalizations forecast to increase amid concerns over new omicron subvariants
VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For the first time since May, COVID-19-related hospital admissions are forecasted to increase again in the U.S., as highly infectious omicron subvariants co...
Jul 14, 2022
Agencies weigh second COVID booster for more people; admin urges shots for those over 50
SDI Productions/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Scientists at the nation's top health agencies are looking into expanding vaccine eligibility so that more Americans can get a second booster shot during th...
Jul 13, 2022
How Plan B works and why it's not abortion
Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Since the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending nearly five decades of a precedent that protected the constitutional right to a...
Jul 12, 2022
Drug company asks FDA for approval for OTC birth control pills
JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A French-based pharmaceutical company announced Monday that it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to sell over-the-counter birth control pill...
Jul 12, 2022
Omicron subvariants threaten COVID-19 resurgence across US
Corbis via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Health officials are once again raising the alarm about the threat of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections across the country, as concerns grow about the new ...
Jul 12, 2022
Long Island school district found to have higher rates of cancer cases: Study
Raychel Brightman/Newsday RM via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new report found a "statistically significant" excess of cancer cases among people of all ages living within a Long Island school district ...
Jul 12, 2022
Extreme heat safety tips: What to know about heat stroke vs. heat exhaustion
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dangerous heat is slamming much of the U.S. Monday, with temperatures forecast to climb above 100 degrees from California to Arizona and Texas to Missouri. Her...
Jul 11, 2022
