Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio

Courtesy of Abigail Robinson(NEW YORK) -- Elias Robinson-Rodriquez was just 11 months old when he underwent a type of heart transplant so rare it had previously been performed on only six children glo...

Dayton Children's Hospital(NEW YORK) -- Doctors in Ohio performed a groundbreaking surgery to separate conjoined twins, the first of its kind due to the twins' age and the complexity of their conditio...

The Good Brigade/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A pill for postpartum depression led to meaningful improvements in depression symptoms, according to a late-stage study published Wednesday in The American J...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When many people think of autism and an initial diagnosis, they think of children. A growing number of adults are learning they have autism, and their condition has gone unt...

Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Several routine childhood vaccines require multiple doses to be effective, but a new study finds children are not receiving all of them. The study, publishe...

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Fetal mortality rates declined among Black women in 2020 but were much higher than other racial/ethnic groups in the U.S., new federal data shows. A report, p...

Courtesy of Mallory(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- The first baby has been born from a transplanted uterus, outside of a clinical trial, the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Monday. UAB said the bi...

Jason Dean/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than a dozen people across four states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

xijian/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden's administration plans to try to force private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical ...

Hannah Peters/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the U.S. Women's National Team tries for a history-making third consecutive World Cup, the team's focus will also be on a critically important cause, mental ...