Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
Amy Schumer post flags potential dangers of COVID-19 pill mixing with other meds
Jared Siskin/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Comedian Amy Schumer revealed Monday that she is taking the COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid as part of her overall care package as she recovers ...
May 11, 2022
Breakthrough deaths comprise increasing proportion of those who died from COVID-19
Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A growing proportion of COVID-19 deaths are occurring among the vaccinated, a new ABC News analysis of federal data shows. In August of 2021, about 18.9% o...
May 10, 2022
Medic who treated patients with fentanyl discusses his recovery from opioid addiction
GIPhotoStock/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt were covering the Iraq War in 2006 and embedded with U.S. and Iraqi forces when an explosion near...
May 10, 2022
Alcohol deaths increase dramatically during pandemic, especially for younger adults: Research
Westend61/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Martin’s drinking started early. In elementary school, his father would offer swigs of Budweiser in the car during their daily pilgrimage from Pomona to Holly...
May 10, 2022
Eleven staffers at Missouri hospital are pregnant at the same time
Liberty Hospital (LIBERTY, Mo.) -- At one Missouri hospital, it’s going to be quite a baby bonanza soon. Ten nurses and one doctor at Liberty Hospital in Liberty, Missouri, are pregnant at the s...
May 10, 2022
Hospital admission totals tick up after weeks of rising COVID-19 cases
FS Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Following weeks of increasing infection rates, a growing number of Americans are heading into the hospital in need of care. On average, nearly 2,400 virus-posi...
May 09, 2022
Why 100 million Americans could be infected during COVID surge this fall
EMS-FORSTER-PRODUCTIONS/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration's stark warning last week that as many as 100 million Americans could be infected during a COVID-19 wave in the fall and wi...
May 09, 2022
How abortion clinics are preparing for possible fall of Roe v. Wade
Robert Cohen/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The bombshell leak of a draft Supreme Court decision that could overturn Roe v. Wade was disheartening but not s...
May 09, 2022
CDC investigating 109 mysterious pediatric hepatitis cases, including 5 deaths
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- At least 109 children have been sickened -- including five who have died -- from mysterious cases of hepatitis with an unknown cause, officials from the Cen...
May 06, 2022
Danica Patrick speaks out about sharing breast implant complications to warn other women
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick revealed she had her breast implants removed after suffering medical complications she believes were caused by the implants. Patrick, who turn...
May 06, 2022