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Allison Dinner/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Since the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, ending nearly five decades of a precedent that protected the constitutional right to a...

JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- A French-based pharmaceutical company announced Monday that it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to sell over-the-counter birth control pill...

Corbis via Getty Images, FILE(NEW YORK) -- Health officials are once again raising the alarm about the threat of a resurgence of COVID-19 infections across the country, as concerns grow about the new ...

Raychel Brightman/Newsday RM via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new report found a "statistically significant" excess of cancer cases among people of all ages living within a Long Island school district ...

Thomas Barwick/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Dangerous heat is slamming much of the U.S. Monday, with temperatures forecast to climb above 100 degrees from California to Arizona and Texas to Missouri. Her...

IronHeart/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As extreme heat slams the U.S., it's important to remember the dangers of leaving children in hot cars. Ten children in the U.S. have died from hot cars so far this...

A car sits parked outside of the Whole Woman's Health abortion clinic in San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 16, 2016. - Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v...

Wesley Lapointe / Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesWesley Lapointe / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Since the COVID-19 vaccine was authorized for children under age 5 last month, st...

living_lifewith.shenisha/Instagram(HOUSTON) -- A Houston woman says the secret to her success in losing over 200 pounds was simply walking. Shenisha Armealine, 27, said she began walking in 2017, whil...

Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Monkeypox cases around the world have increased 77% in seven days, the World Health Organization said Thursday. There have been 6,027 laborator...