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Inside the harrowing 48-hour rush to evacuate NICU babies after Hurricane Ian
Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital(NEW YORK) -- As Hurricane Ian pounded the West Coast of Florida, Tiffani Henning watched the Category 4 storm from the third floor of Golisano Children’s Hospita...
Oct 06, 2022
Victims of sexual violence often left with overwhelming medical bills after emergency care
Catherine McQueen/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sexual violence survivors may often face overwhelming medical bills when seeking emergency care, a factor that could discourage many people from seeking tre...
Oct 06, 2022
4 out of 5 people with long COVID have trouble performing day-to-day activities: CDC
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Most people suffering from long COVID are experiencing some trouble performing day-to-day activities, new federal data shows. As of Sept. 26, 81% of a...
Oct 05, 2022
Women spend about double the amount of time on chores than men do: Study
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Women are more likely to spend double the amount of time than men caregiving, tackling chores and doing housework -- all tasks that can lead to a greater impact on mental health ...
Oct 05, 2022
Officials warn about candy-lookalike 'rainbow' fentanyl ahead of Halloween
DEA(NEW YORK) -- Just weeks before Halloween, law enforcement officials are warning about a deadly drug packaged in pills that "look like candy." So-called rainbow fentanyl began showing up on the str...
Oct 05, 2022
Meet the scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for evolution research
Jens Schlueter/Getty Images(STOCKHOLM) -- A Swedish scientist won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this week for his work in evolution. The committee awarded Svante Pääbo, director ...
Oct 05, 2022
New guidelines call for doctors to screen for anxiety: Why it matters, especially for women
Ghislain & Marie David de Lossy/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Jillian Hughes, 33, of Washington, D.C., said she dealt with symptoms of anxiety for more than a decade before getting a diagnosis of an...
Oct 03, 2022
Young women take to social media to share breast cancer diagnoses, raise awareness
David Espejo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Women in their 20s and 30s are taking to social media to share their breast cancer diagnoses and raise awareness of breast cancer in women under 40. "They're jus...
Oct 03, 2022
Dozens of brie, camembert products recalled amid listeria outbreak
Image Source via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- More than two dozen brands of cheese have been recalled in connection with a listeria outbreak that has left multiple people hospitalized, federal offic...
Oct 01, 2022
Pregnant Florida woman drives through Hurricane Ian to give birth
Health First’s Holmes Regional Medical Center(MELBOURNE, FL) -- A pregnant Florida woman braved strong winds and potentially dangerous flooding to get to a hospital after she went into labor dur...
Sep 30, 2022