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ImageGap/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Disabled people are disproportionately victims of violent crime and victimization in the United States, according to new data released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics....

Milan Markovic/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Millions more vaccinated adults across the U.S. became eligible for a COVID-19 booster shot on Friday. And yet, the vast majority of vaccinated Americans were alread...

PeopleImages/iStock(LONDON) -- The UK approved a new HIV treatment that requires an injection every other month, rather than the current routine of taking pills every day. The UK's National Institute ...

kuzma/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A group of seven women are suing Yale University, claiming they underwent invasive and painful procedures for in-vitro fertilization and received saline instead of fentanyl, ...

Gotham/GC Images(NEW YORK) -- Selena Gomez wants to tear down the stigmas surrounding mental health, so she teamed with her mother, Mandy Teefy, and Newsette co-founder Daniella Pierson to launch Wond...

Teka77/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 18 and older who is already considere...

Liliboas/iStock(NEW YORK) -- With a winter virus surge lurking and no readily available vaccines, Thanksgiving 2020 was very different for most families. This year, expectations are much higher. But e...

Courtesy of Michael and Emily Johnson(VACAVILLE, Calif.) -- Emily Johnson had planned on giving birth to her second child in a hospital, with an epidural. Instead, Johnson, 31, of Vacaville, Californi...

Michael Hickey/Getty Images(ANN ARBOR, Mich.) -- Public health officials are investigating an influenza outbreak at a Michigan university that has resulted in more than 500 cases, as several schools h...

EHStock(NEW YORK) -- More than 100,000 people in the U.S. died of a drug overdose during the first year of the pandemic, a nearly 29% increase from the same time period in 2019, the Centers for Diseas...