Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
New York City's COVID test positivity rate surpasses 10% for the first time since January
Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate is skyrocketing, indicating that a sixth wave of the virus could be around the corner. As of June 26 -- the l...
Jun 30, 2022
Government nearly exhausts monoclonal COVID treatment funding with new purchase
GlaxoSmithKline(WASHINGTON) -- Eli Lilly has announced the U.S. government is buying an additional 150,000 courses of the only monoclonal antibody therapy left that still holds up against all COV...
Jun 30, 2022
Spike in Google searches for abortion pills may lead to rise in unsafe abortions: Study
Elisa Wells/Plan C/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A spike in internet searches for abortion pills may indicate women in the United States will try to obtain the medication without a doctor's o...
Jun 30, 2022
What you need to know about medication abortion after the overturning of Roe v. Wade
ELISA WELLS/PLAN C/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, many pregnant people living in states where abortion is now illegal are expected to tur...
Jun 30, 2022
Baby neck floats could lead to severe injury, death: FDA
Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- The Food and Drug Administration issued a new alert this week, warning parents not to use baby neck floats on their children, particularly those with s...
Jun 29, 2022
Fauci says he's taking 2nd course of Paxlovid after experiencing rebound with the antiviral treatment
Anna Rose Layden-Pool/Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- After testing positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he has joined a growing group of people experiencing a...
Jun 29, 2022
Health officials plan for updated vaccines with an eye on COVID’s unpredictability
APU GOMES/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Updated COVID-19 vaccines that could better match the more recent variants are on the way. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's committee of ...
Jun 29, 2022
Potential recession would harm mental health: Experts
elenaleonova/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Jey Austen, a brand designer at a fintech company, lost their job about two weeks ago. But the layoff didn’t come as a surprise, said Austen, 27, who is tr...
Jun 29, 2022
HHS to send out nearly 300,000 monkeypox vaccine doses across US in coming weeks
Jasmine Merdan/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is planning to send out hundreds of thousands of monkeypox vaccines in response to the outbreak of the rare disease that has been id...
Jun 28, 2022
Some pharmacies limiting Plan B pill purchases as demand spikes
Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two of the country’s largest pharmacy chains, CVS and Rite Aid, confirmed to ABC News this week that they had restricte...
Jun 28, 2022
