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Sharon Pruitt / EyeEm/ Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Zero-calorie sweetener erythritol, widely used in sugar replacement or reduced-sugar products, has been linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular e...

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- While no firm conclusion has yet been made among health and government officials as to where COVID-19 came from, the U.S. Energy Department has now report...

LWA/Dann Tardif/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Growing rates of obesity are contributing to more heart disease risks during and after pregnancy, experts warn. People with obesity are more at risk of potent...

Alissa Eckert/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY(ATLANTA) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory Friday about an increase in an antibiotic-resistant strain of the Shigella bacte...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham(NEW YORK) -- Britney Alba remembers the day she and her husband, Frankie Alba, received the news they were expecting twins. It had only been six months since th...

Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- While no firm conclusion has yet been made among health and government officials as to where COVID-19 came from, the U.S. Energy Department has now repor...

DIGICOMPHOTO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(COLUMBUS, Ohio) -- The measles outbreak in central Ohio that left 85 children infected has officially been declared over, Columbus Public Health announc...

Ceirra Zeager, now 23, survived a heart attack at age 14 and open heart surgery at age 21. -- Courtesy Ceirra Zeager(NEW YORK) -- By the time Ceirra Zeager graduated from college last year, she had al...

Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., is raising awareness for heart health two months after the signing of a new law named for his late wife, who died in June 2020 from a ...

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A record number of drug overdose deaths were recorded in North Carolina in 2021, according to new data from the state Department of Health and Human Services. I...