Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Baby formula timeline: Plant posed a risk last fall
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Federal regulators warned months ago of potential problems at a manufacturing plant for baby formula, according to documents and a public timeline ...
May 14, 2022
New study's findings could help explain sudden infant death syndrome
Kaori Ando/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new study is offering new clues in solving the medical mystery of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), which causes over 1,000 infant deaths per year in the Unit...
May 13, 2022
'COVID has taken a lot from me': Inside one long hauler's recovery
Courtesy Heather-Elizabeth Brown(NEW YORK) -- Heather-Elizabeth Brown feels grateful to have survived her bout with severe COVID-19. But more than two years after testing positive for the virus, she i...
May 13, 2022
Doctor in COVID battle recalls the heartbreak and hope of early pandemic
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- The sound of construction around Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital is hard to miss. Crews are essentially building a new hospital because the old ...
May 13, 2022
How two NJ towns illustrated persistent race gap in the COVID pandemic
skaman306/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Teaneck and Ridgewood are towns in New Jersey that are just minutes from each other. Yet when it came to the COVID pandemic, they were worlds apart when it came to ...
May 13, 2022
Hospital chaplain finds unique strategy to combat COVID fatigue
Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- As the United States marks one million COVID deaths, comfort is something neither families of the dead nor front-line health care workers have known ...
May 13, 2022
Crisis lines and helplines are not the same, but experts say we need both
Steven Clevenger/Corbis via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The past few years have seen a growing mental health crisis, prompting an increasing number of Americans to seek help through confidential telepho...
May 13, 2022
What abortion funds are and how they work
Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As a growing number of states continue to pass strict abortion laws, Americans are facing more barriers when it comes to accessing the procedure. How...
May 13, 2022
Ashley Judd shines light on coping with mental health after death of mom Naomi Judd
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- As Ashley Judd copes with the loss of her mom, country music legend Naomi Judd, she is shining a spotlight on how to support loved ones with mental health struggles. In an interv...
May 13, 2022
COVID-19 nurse reflects on 1 million American virus deaths: 'We are still mourning losses'
Willis-Knighton Medical Center(NEW YORK) -- Last July, a tearful Felicia Croft sat in her car after a long shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit, and expressed her deep despair about watching...
May 12, 2022