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Stella/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the United States faces a growing mental health crisis among young people, spurred on by the coronavirus pandemic, a nonprofit organization focused on mental health...

skaman306/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 vaccine guidance on Tuesday to recommend that some Americans over the age of 12 who have received...

JGI/Jamie Grill(ATLANTA) -- Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. rose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial disparities that existed before the pandemic were perpetuated, according...

Thiago Prudencio/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Drugmakers Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline announced Wednesday they are planning to ask regulators to authorize their new COVID-19 v...

Tara Robinson(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- A woman who survived three heart attacks in three days at age 40 is now leading an effort to make Black women aware of the risks of heart disease. Tara Robinson, of...

Courtesy Kristi Engelbrecht(BURLINGTON, N.C.) -- A North Carolina couple became first-time parents on "Twosday." Aberli and Hank Spear welcomed their first child -- a girl they’ve named Judah Gr...

ABC News(AUSTIN, Texas) -- Music, conversation and the sound of glasses clinking are all part of a bar's atmosphere. The Sans Bar in Austin, Texas, offers the same experience with one big exception --...

Courtesy Amber Higgins(NEW YORK) -- A New Mexico infant is happy, healthy and thriving after beating the odds. Jari Lopez was just 9 inches and weighed only 11.5 ounces, lighter than an average loaf o...

Alysha Tagert, a Washington, D.C. based mental health therapist, shares a photo of a coping tool box for kids. - Courtesy Alysha Tagert(WASHINGTON) -- As the United States enters a third year of the c...

Xavier Lorenzo/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- When the recent COVID-19 wave fueled by the omicron variant hit the U.S., no one expected it would lead to the number of deaths it did. As of Wednesday, the na...