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Virginia Sole-Smith/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- Children are often exposed to diet culture from a young age and its negative impacts can be long-lasting, according to author Virginia Sole-Smith. Sole-Smith...

Xinhua via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first RSV vaccine in the U.S. Scientists have been trying to develop an RSV vaccine for deca...

Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The rate of drug overdose deaths linked to fentanyl in the United States has skyrocketed over the last five years, new federal data showed. The rate of overdose ...

ATU Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Lucy Brown, a medical student at Indiana University, wanted to stay in Indiana for her OB-GYN residency, but when Roe v. Wade was overturned last June, her priorit...

xijian/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory on Tuesday calling attention to the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation and lack of connection in the United St...

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images(CLARK COUNTY, Nev.) -- Health officials are investigating an increase of a rare brain infection occurring in kids in Nevada, according to the U.S. Centers for ...

Author Jancee Dunn talks about her new book, "Hot and Bothered: What no one tells you about menopause," on ABC's "Good Morning America," May 1, 2023. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As more women pull back t...

FDA.gov(NEW YORK) -- Four types of Gold Medal all-purpose flour, bleached and unbleached, have been recalled due to possible salmonella contamination. General Mills announced a voluntary recall with t...

xijian/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rachel Simner, the mom of a 13-year-old child in Illinois, said she took her child to a local emergency room last September at the urging of her child's school officia...

Courtesy Wilson Hayes(NEW YORK) -- Weeks of shoulder pain landed a reluctant Whitney Nichols in urgent care. As a previously healthy 24-year-old Black woman, she pleaded for additional testing to...