Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Long-term survival of monkey with transplanted pig kidney offers hope in alternative organ search: Scientists
eGenesis(BOSTON) -- Harvard-affiliated scientists say they have been able to keep a monkey alive for two years with a genetically engineered pig kidney. Although preliminary, transplant experts s...
Oct 11, 2023
Why safe spaces in health care matter for LGBTQ+ patients
Alexander Spatari/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Andrew, a 39-year-old New Yorker who identifies as queer, says he got lucky with his first primary care provider, who was very queer friendly. "He was strai...
Oct 11, 2023
Amid nationwide mental health crisis, suicide prevention hotlines struggle with repeat callers
xijian/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Things at Family Services of Northeast Wisconsin have not slowed down since July 2022. The center, which runs the 988 crisis hotline for the state, worked hard to expa...
Oct 10, 2023
Physical and mental health toll on people trapped in war zones as Israel conflict continues
Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the conflict in Israel moves into its fourth day, thousands of people are caught in the war zone. Hundreds of Israelis and Palestinians are dead, accordin...
Oct 10, 2023
Parents say they're struggling with their own mental health amid a growing youth mental health crisis
Michelle Gonzales-Reed(NEW YORK) -- Michelle Gonzales-Reed's son Dajon was in high school when she said she began noticing signs of mental health struggles in her teen son, signs that included a lack ...
Oct 10, 2023
Former NICU neighbors overcome rare heart disease to become college roommates
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two neonatal intensive care unit patients who were once given a 40% chance of survival are now thriving years later. Tate Lewis and Seth Rippentrop...
Oct 09, 2023
Excessive drinking during the pandemic increased rates of liver disease, transplants
Makoto Honda / 500px/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Transplant centers across the United States are reporting more patients in need of a new liver than ever before, sometimes seeing double the number of pa...
Oct 09, 2023
Innovations in Alzheimer's treatment risk leaving Hispanic community behind, experts say
TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Evelin Miranda first noticed something was off with her husband, Eddie, about 10 years ago, when he started picking her up from work late. The...
Oct 07, 2023
First on ABC: 4M Americans have gotten latest COVID shot -- on par with last fall's vaccine rollout
Luis Alvarez/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than 4 million Americans have been vaccinated with the newest COVID shot as of Thursday, according to the latest government data, putting the uptake about e...
Oct 05, 2023
Child drug poisonings and firearm deaths have skyrocketed in America: Study
PBNJ Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Firearm deaths and drug poisoning deaths in children have spiked in the last decade, according to a new study in the United States. The study found an increa...
Oct 05, 2023
