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www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More schools across the United States are putting mask mandates in place as COVID-19 cases continue to rise. Before winter break, districts in New Jersey and ...

JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Did you know that working out in old sneakers can do more harm to your body than good? According to podiatrist Dr. Priya Parthasarathy, you should test your sne...

Image Source/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Children and adolescents should be proactively evaluated and treated for obesity, according to new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics around chil...

lacaosa/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The ketogenic, or keto, diet is one of the well-known diets out there, but a simplified version of the high fat, low carbohydrate diet is gaining in popularity too. W...

thebirdspapaya/Instagram(NEW YORK) -- Amid the influx of messages on weight loss and change and resolutions that come with the New Year, one woman is sending a different message. Sarah Nicole Landry, ...

Jason Marz/Getty Images(COLUMBIA, S.C.) -- South Carolina's Supreme Court struck down the state's six-week abortion ban Thursday, claiming it violates the state's constitution. The 2021 so-called "hea...

Camelia Ciocirlan / 500px / Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When the mpox outbreak first struck the United States over the summer, experts said it was mostly affecting minority men. But new federal data pub...

SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The World Health Organization is warning that a new omicron subvariant known as XBB.1.5 is the most transmissible strain to date. As COVID-19 hospitalizatio...

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new study has identified a possible link between frequently checking social media and brain changes that are associated with having less control of impulsive...

Courtesy Sabiha Aoudia(CHICAGO) -- A 5-year-old in Chicago has overcome the odds to celebrate her fifth birthday. Now, her family is raising money for her to receive a life-changing surgery. When Alic...