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Getty Images/Morsa Images/Stock(NEW YORK) -- When the first coronavirus vaccines were shipped out across the country more than a year ago, millions of Americans waited eagerly for their turn to g...

Morsa Images/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The gap in COVID-19 vaccination uptake between rural and urban Americans is continuing to widen, a federal report published Thursday found. As of Jan. 31, 2022, 7...

Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, as hospitals became overrun, a group of doctors began touting an anti-parasitic medicine called iver...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The United States marked a new stage in the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address T...

Christopher Furlong/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the Russian invasion of Ukraine intensifies, children are experiencing devastating consequences of being caught up in the war zone. At least seven chil...

Courtesy of Sarah Granados(NEW YORK) -- A North Carolina woman who had been unable to eat solid foods for over a decade due to a rare condition underwent a life-changing multiorgan transplant that gav...

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The White House on Wednesday released a sweeping new 96-page plan on COVID, marking a new era in the pandemic in which the virus is still circulating...

Frazer Harrison/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sandra Lee opened up on social media about the latest on her yearslong breast cancer journey, sharing the news with her 119,000 followers that she was going i...

Ana Maria Serrano/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Jeopardy! contestant Christine Whelchel has been competing on the popular TV game show since last week but it wasn't just her winning performances that h...

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of births declined in the U.S. in 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic played a role, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Cont...