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Landmark CA bill to ban harmful food chemicals spares Skittles, heads to Gov. Newsom for signing
SDI Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- California is making history with a first-of-its-kind bill to ban four harmful chemicals from candy, cereals, salad dressings and other processed foods, legis...
Kelly McCarthy, ABC News Sep 14, 2023

COVID-19 shots will be free for most, regardless of insurance
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The latest, updated COVID-19 vaccines should soon be available to everyone and offered largely free of cost, ac...
Youri Benadjaoud and Cheyenne Haslett, ABC News Sep 13, 2023

DA issues warning letters to CVS, Walgreens, other companies over unapproved eye products
ABC News Photo Illustration, CVS, Walgreens(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued letters to several companies -- including major pharmacy chains -- this week, warning them ag...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Sep 13, 2023

DeSantis' administration advises against updated COVID shots for people under 65
Win McNamee/Getty Images(TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) -- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration on Wednesday advised against the updated COVID-19 shots for people under the age of 65 -- a rebuke to fed...
Will McDuffie and Hannah Demissie, ABC News Sep 13, 2023

Ahead of a possible 'tripledemic,' pediatrician shares what to know about getting kids vaccinated
Евгения Матвеец/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With kids back in school, COVID hospitalizations on the rise across the co...
Katie Kindelan, ABC News Sep 13, 2023

CDC recommends new COVID booster for all Americans over 6 months amid rising cases, hospitalizations
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director signed off on the recommendation that all Americans age...
Mary Kekatos and Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News Sep 12, 2023

COVID hospitalizations have risen for 2 months straight as new booster shots expected this week
Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- COVID hospitalizations have risen nearly 9% in the most recent week, marking the eighth consecutive week of inc...
Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News Sep 12, 2023

Women, doctors announce legal action against abortion bans in 3 states
ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women in Idaho, Oklahoma and Tennessee filed legal actions against their states over abortion bans, saying they were denied abortions despite having dangerous...
Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News Sep 12, 2023

CDC calls Florida's advice against new COVID booster 'dangerous'
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is responding after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state's surgeon general advised agai...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Sep 12, 2023

COVID numbers are rising again, but Fauci not predicting another 'tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths'
ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- Amid a rise in COVID-19 infections -- as seen by first lady Jill Biden's recent bout with the virus -- public health experts are tracking the numbers but aren't "predictin...
Ayesha Ali, ABC News Sep 10, 2023
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