Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Teva Pharmaceuticals to pay New York $523 million to settle claims from its role in opioids crisis
Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed Thursday to pay New York $523 million to settle claims stemming from the company’s role in the opioids crisis. It&rs...
Nov 03, 2022
Biden administration expanding mental health services, personnel in schools
www.fuchieh.com/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Ten-year-old Sarah Craig banged at the side door of Granny Lin-Lin's Louisville, Kentucky, home last December. Through the window, Craig saw shattered glass...
Nov 03, 2022
Why this could be the worst flu season in the US in more than a decade
Peter Dazeley/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of positive flu tests and hospitalizations in the United States is the highest in more than a decade, indicating this influenza season may be the mos...
Nov 03, 2022
FDA warns one type of amoxicillin, a common antibiotic for children, is in short supply
MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- One version of amoxicillin, a common antibiotic used to treat issues like ear infections in kids, is in short supply, according to the Food ...
Oct 31, 2022
Matthew Perry hopes his memoir will 'help a lot of people' battling addiction
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Matthew Perry lays bare his struggle with addiction in his new memoir Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, and told ABC News' Good Morning America he "can't wait" for peo...
Oct 31, 2022
Flu-related hospitalizations highest in 10 years
Elizabeth Fernandez/Getty Images/STOCK(NEW YORK) -- Flu season is making an early comeback as flu-related hospitalizations are the highest in over a decade for this point in the season, according...
Oct 29, 2022
Police, firefighters had job with highest COVID death rates in 2020: CDC
Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Police officers, firefighters and other protection service employees had the occupation with the highest death rates from COVID-19 in 2020, new federal dat...
Oct 28, 2022
Family reveals ordeal of 2-year-old son in hospital with 3 viruses simultaneously
Courtesy of Ciara Jackson(MIDDLETOWN, Ohio) -- An Ohio family is speaking out to share their son's battle with three different viruses as respiratory infections spike in children across the country, f...
Oct 27, 2022
Cancer death rates continue to decrease as diagnoses hold steady, doctors explain why
Sorrasak Jar Tinyo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Even though the number of people diagnosed with cancer each year remains roughly the same, recent medical advances mean that more people are surviving, and...
Oct 27, 2022
Some US hospitals report beds are full among increase in respiratory infections in children
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Some hospitals across the United States say their beds are full as cases of respiratory viruses continue to increase among children. According to t...
Oct 27, 2022