Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
How to flip your diet and increase the "Plant Power" on your plate
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Adding more plants to your plate can be both flavorful and favorable when it comes to a beneficial diet. Dr. Ian Smith, author of Plant Power: Flip Your Plate, Change Your Weight...
Apr 05, 2022
Texans seeking abortions in Oklahoma after ban may soon face new challenge
The Good Brigade/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the seven months since Texas enacted a law that bans nearly all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, its northern neighbor, Oklahoma, has felt the impa...
Apr 05, 2022
New COVID-19 variant XE identified: What to know and why experts say not to be alarmed
Daniel Knighton/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A new COVID-19 variant has been identified in the United Kingdom, but experts say there is no cause for alarm yet. The variant, known as XE, is a combination ...
Apr 04, 2022
Later school start times eyed to address youth mental health crisis
Image Source/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- California was the first state to mandate that high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Pediatrician Dr. Bert Mandelbaum hopes New Jersey will be the second....
Apr 04, 2022
Baby with rare condition gets heart transplant after waiting 218 days
Collin Baker(CHICAGO) -- A baby girl who has been living in a Chicago hospital with her parents for the last six months while waiting for a new heart finally received one last week. Elodie Carmen Bake...
Apr 04, 2022
Rise of COVID-19 reinfections in England linked to waning immunity and spread of BA.2, experts say
Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in England, the country is also experiencing a surge in reinfections. Provisional data shows that, as of the...
Apr 01, 2022
House votes to cap cost of insulin at $35, heads to Senate
MajaMitrovic/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Congress could soon send to the president's desk a bill that would cap the cost of the lifesaving drug insulin at $35 per month -- a move that could significan...
Mar 31, 2022
New data on teens' mental health during pandemic 'echo a cry for help,' CDC official says
Carol Yepes/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As experts continue to warn of a growing youth mental health crisis, new data is shedding light on how severely high school students have struggled during the cor...
Mar 31, 2022
Teen reflects on recovering from pandemic-related mental health struggles
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When lockdowns first hit the country during the spring of 2020, 18-year-old Emma Brun said she was in a tough place. The student gymnast couldn't compete in any of her meets or s...
Mar 31, 2022
Switching to clean energy would save over 100,000 US lives, American Lung Association reports
AerialPerspective Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- If the United States switched completely to cleaner energy vehicles and power plants, it would not only benefit the environment but also save an esti...
Mar 30, 2022