Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
FDA approves new therapy for people living with skin-discoloration disorder Vitiligo
Courtesy Berardo Rivas(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval on Monday for Opzelura, which is the first topical JAK inhibitor cream for the treatment of vitiligo for peop...
Jul 19, 2022
Ghana declares 1st ever outbreak of Ebola-like Marburg virus disease
Getty Images(LONDON) -- Ghana on Sunday declared its first ever outbreak of the Ebola-like Marburg virus disease. Blood samples taken from two patients in the southern Ashanti region were sent for tes...
Jul 18, 2022
US men sicker than those abroad, study says
Thomas Barwick/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- American men are sicker and die earlier than men living in other developed nations, according to a new report from The Commonwealth Fund, a non-profit organiza...
Jul 15, 2022
With an incoming COVID surge, health officials push urgently for boosters. Do you need one?
Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China. Facing yet another COVID-19 variant, this one ...
Jul 15, 2022
Patients being barred from medication no longer used for abortion post Roe
Phil Walter/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The Department of Health and Human Services announced it is investigating reports of women being denied vital medication for chronic medical conditions unrelated ...
Jul 14, 2022
Biden to announce appointees to Cancer Panel, part of initiative to cut death rate
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden will announce Wednesday his appointees to the President's Cancer Panel, ABC News can exclusively reveal. The Cancer Panel ...
Jul 14, 2022
Experts reveal how likely reinfection is from COVID with spread of omicron subvariant BA.5
VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the prevailing theory was that if someone was infected with the virus, they were immune -- at least for a while. But a g...
Jul 14, 2022
FDA authorizes Novavax COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in US
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Americans will likely have one more COVID-19 vaccine to choose from after the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use...
Jul 14, 2022
COVID hospitalizations forecast to increase amid concerns over new omicron subvariants
VioletaStoimenova/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For the first time since May, COVID-19-related hospital admissions are forecasted to increase again in the U.S., as highly infectious omicron subvariants co...
Jul 14, 2022
Agencies weigh second COVID booster for more people; admin urges shots for those over 50
SDI Productions/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Scientists at the nation's top health agencies are looking into expanding vaccine eligibility so that more Americans can get a second booster shot during th...
Jul 13, 2022