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Nation's latest COVID-19 wave largely hidden from view, health experts say
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Current COVID-19 cases are just a fraction of what they were at the peak of the omicron wave. But many people in the country may be noticing what seems to b...
May 25, 2022
How to talk to kids after 19 children, two adults killed in Texas school shooting
ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least 19 children and two adults are dead after a shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public S...
May 25, 2022
FDA warns against storing avocados in water as seen in viral social media hack
Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A recent viral TikTok food hack has been dubbed unsafe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Videos of halved avocados submerged in bowls or containers of water...
May 25, 2022
Billie Eilish opens up about having Tourette's syndrome: 'I have made friends with it'
Lionel Hahn/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Billie Eilish is opening up about living with Tourette's syndrome. In a new episode of David Letterman's series My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, the singer, w...
May 24, 2022
Pediatrician answers parents' questions about COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5
Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Pfizer's release of data showing its three-shot COVID-19 vaccine is 80% effective among children under the age of 5 is welcome news for parents anxio...
May 24, 2022
Moms search for solutions after daughters die by suicide
Caroline Long(NEW YORK) -- Eva Long was a funny, bright and goofy child who became a talented singer, piano player and songwriter in her teen years, according to her mom, Caroline Long. She was also s...
May 24, 2022
First increase in births reported in seven years, CDC finds
Jupiterimages/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday fro...
May 24, 2022
1 confirmed, 6 presumptive monkeypox cases in US, government releasing vaccines for exposed
Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With seven people in the U.S. now confirmed or presumed to have monkeypox, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
May 23, 2022
FDA advisers to meet to discuss COVID-19 shots for kids, vaccines for fall
Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the wake of Pfizer's new pediatric COVID-19 vaccine data for children under the age of 5, which was released on Monday, the Food and Drug Administration has set new, tenta...
May 23, 2022
Florida health officials investigating third possible monkeypox case in US
Jepayona Delita/Future Publishing via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Florida health officials are investigating what they describe as a "presumptive" monkeypox case, making it the third possible case of th...
May 23, 2022