Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
FDA investigating hepatitis A outbreak possibly linked to organic strawberries
alvarez/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A that is possibly linked to two b...
May 30, 2022
What restrictions were in place the last time COVID cases were so high
Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Despite widespread vaccination and several available treatments, the U.S. is recording as many COVID-19 cases now at the tail end of th...
May 30, 2022
These are the symptoms of monkeypox and how to treat them
JUDY GRIESEDIECK/Star Tribune via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cases of monkeypox continue to rise as a recent outbreak reaches countries in North America and Europe, where the disease is not commonly fo...
May 30, 2022
Blaming mass shootings on the nation's mental health crisis is 'harmful', advocates say
Brandon Bell/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Tuesday, May 24 marked yet another tragic day in America, after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in rural Texas, leaving 19 children and two teachers...
May 30, 2022
Former NICU patient graduates medical school, aims to return to NICU as doctor
Marcus Mosely(NEW YORK) -- A New York man who was born prematurely 27 years ago and spent 40 days in a neonatal intensive care unit says he plans to go back to the NICU, this time as a doctor speciali...
May 27, 2022
Grief counselors from Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook describe what happens after a school shooting
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Sandy Austin was in her second year working as a school counselor in Colorado in 1999 when two students opened fire at Columbine High School i...
May 27, 2022
The difference in treating child victims of gun violence versus adults
Portra/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday left 21 people dead -- including 19 students and two teachers -- and 17 additional people injured. ...
May 26, 2022
How to use books to help kids cope and talk after a school shooting
Courtesy Andrea Burns(NEW YORK) -- Nearly a decade since a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, cut the lives of 20 children and six adults short, American f...
May 26, 2022
How to help victims' families, first-responders and Uvalde community after school shooting
Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(UVALDE, Texas) -- Americans have turned their attention to Uvalde, Texas, after the devastating shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children an...
May 26, 2022
Comfort dogs sent to Texas to offer support following elementary school shooting
Lutheran Church Charities(UVALDE, Texas) -- Several dogs are among the responders traveling to Texas Wednesday, one day after a gunman opened fire at an elementary school in the city of Uvalde, killin...
May 25, 2022