Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
How to stay safe in the cold: What to know about frostbite, hypothermia as Arctic blast hits US
KAKEBreak out the gloves and hats: A record-breaking Arctic cold snap is bringing dangerously cold temperatures to much of the United States. In Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, football fans brave...
Jan 14, 2024
COVID hospitalizations increase for 9th straight week: CDC
MoMo Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Respiratory virus activity continues to remain elevated across the United States but there may be some signs that a peak has been reached for at least one vi...
Jan 12, 2024
Mom has limbs amputated after going into septic shock following kidney stone surgery
pablohart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cindy Mullins was a healthy 41-year-old mom of two when she went into the hospital nearly six weeks ago for surgery on kidney stones. On Friday, Mullins is finally ...
Jan 12, 2024
How to stay safe and prepare for freezing temperatures
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Break out the gloves and hats: Dangerously cold temperatures are headed to the Plains and the South over the weekend and early next week. Sioux City, I...
Jan 12, 2024
Jelly Roll delivers impassioned testimony before Congress as lawmakers push for new anti-fentanyl legislation
Jason "Jelly Roll" DeFord testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs committee, Jan. 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C. -- Kent Nishimura/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Grammy-nominated s...
Jan 12, 2024
Grand jury declines to indict Ohio woman facing charges after she miscarried
Matei Brancoveanu / 500px / Getty Images(WARREN, Ohio) -- A grand jury decided Thursday not to indict an Ohio woman on allegations that she mishandled the remains of a fetus after miscarrying her preg...
Jan 11, 2024
Michael Strahan's daughter battles brain tumor: What to know about medulloblastoma
Heidi Gutman/ABC(NEW YORK) -- For the past two months, Michael Strahan's 19-year-old daughter Isabella has faced a private health battle, fighting medulloblastoma, a type of brain tumor. Isabella Stra...
Jan 11, 2024
Massive amounts of tiny plastics found in bottled drinking water, study finds
Hitoshi Nishimura/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Drinking more water every day is a healthy habit, but a new study has raised concerns about the container you should sip from. Researchers from Columbia Uni...
Jan 11, 2024
Decades after earliest government warnings against smoking, officials torn on menthol ban
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Aides to President Joe Biden remain divided on a plan to ban menthol cigarette sales, according to several people familiar with the matter who say co...
Jan 11, 2024
Overall rates of stroke decreasing, but racial inequity worsens for Black Americans, new study finds
Maskot/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Although rates of strokes in the adult population have generally decreased over the last several decades, the racial inequity gap persists, according to a new stu...
Jan 10, 2024
