Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
How an emergency medicine physician chooses baby food for her kids
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Feeding a baby is something a parent must do multiple times a day, every day, and yet it can be one of the most confusing and stressful things that any parent do...
Oct 21, 2022
Over 70% of pediatric hospital beds in US full amid surge of respiratory illnesses
Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the surge in children's respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children's hospital is co...
Oct 21, 2022
Study: 1 in 3 teens reported poor mental health during pandemic
Elva Etienne/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The pandemic has taken a toll on all Americans' mental health, but now, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that more than 1 ...
Oct 21, 2022
CDC corrects conservative claim: They cannot mandate COVID vaccines in schools
IMAGINESTOCK/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing back on a claim made by Fox News' Tucker Carlson, who said on his show this week that a CDC decision wa...
Oct 20, 2022
Mom of three credits influencer with saving her life by sharing breast cancer diagnosis
Courtesy Delia Chatwin(NEW YORK) -- Carli Williams, of Texas, went from following an influencer on Instagram to crediting the woman with saving her life. Williams, 33, said she felt a small lump in he...
Oct 20, 2022
Children's hospital in talks with FEMA to set up medical tent amid surge of respiratory illnesses
Connecticut Children's Medical Center(NEW YORK) -- As the surge in children's respiratory illnesses, including rhinovirus and enterovirus, continues across the country, one children's hospital is cons...
Oct 19, 2022
Florida seeing 'abnormal' increase in flesh-eating bacteria cases due to Hurricane Ian
Tetra Images/Getty Images(FORT MYERS, Fla.) -- Florida is seeing an increase in confirmed cases of flesh-eating bacteria this year due to the impact of Hurricane Ian, health officials said. The Florid...
Oct 19, 2022
Mom challenges town's testing following cancer cluster reports, says more should be done
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A New Jersey mom is on a mission to uncover more information that could shed light on a possible cancer cluster at her children's high school. Edyta Komorek, an environmental sci...
Oct 19, 2022
Hair-straightening chemicals may be linked to uterine cancer risk, study finds
lambada/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women who use chemical hair-straightening products may be at a higher risk for uterine cancer, and Black women may be more affected due to their higher rate of use, a...
Oct 19, 2022
COVID subvariants: What to know and should you be concerned?
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Even as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations driven by the omicron subvariant BA.5 continue to fall in the United States, the proportion of infections attrib...
Oct 19, 2022