Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio
How athletes can return to exercise after COVID-19 infection: New guidance released
Kriangkrai Thitimakorn/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Throughout the pandemic, several professional and collegiate sports leagues cancelled major events and seasons, in part to slow the spread of COVID-19,...
Mar 16, 2022
How to talk to kids about the war in Ukraine
James D. Morgan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In a digital age, children have access to around-the-clock news coverage of frightened refugees, gunfire and talk of a nuclear attack. Many American parents a...
Mar 15, 2022
988: A new number for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, but funding in question
Karl Tapales/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Amid growing concerns about the impact of the pandemic on Americans' mental health, and the rollout of a new three-digit number for the National Suicide Preventi...
Mar 15, 2022
New study shows rise in kids diagnosed with mental health conditions: What parents should know
Bernd Vogel/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As experts warn of a growing mental health crisis among kids due to the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows the mental health struggles kids faced even prior to ...
Mar 15, 2022
Rise in COVID-19 infections overseas may foreshadow increase in US, experts say
Tetra Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When the coronavirus receded across much of the globe last month and the omicron surge declined, many Americans were hopeful that was perhaps the signal that the...
Mar 15, 2022
Los Angeles Unified School District says it's keeping mask mandate
Stella/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Los Angeles Unified School District said it's keeping its mask mandate in place -- at least temporarily -- even as California drops its requirement for masks in ind...
Mar 14, 2022
Hailey Bieber on the mend after 'mini-stroke.' These are the symptoms to watch for
Theo Wargo/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) -- Hailey Bieber is on the mend after experiencing stroke-like symptoms last week. Over the weekend, the 25-year-old model told her fans what happened on her Insta...
Mar 14, 2022
One-year-old girl gets blood-filled tumor removed from forehead
Ashley McKnight(ORO-MEDONTE, Ontario) -- When Chloe McKnight was born 15 months ago, she had what looked like a slight scratch on her forehead, according to her mom, Ashley McKnight. As Chloe grew, th...
Mar 14, 2022
Colorectal cancer screenings urged as US deaths could top 52,000 this year
JazzIRT/Getty(NEW YORK) — Colorectal cancer is expected to claim the lives of more than 52,000 Americans this year, according to the American Cancer Society. This is why, as the world tries to r...
Mar 13, 2022
How 'springing forward' for daylight saving time could cause your health to fall back
Stock Photo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The beginning of daylight saving time marks the arrival of spring every year. For some, the time difference can cause feelings of fatigue or more serious hea...
Mar 12, 2022