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NoSystem images/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Half of parents in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll are skeptical about the safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for children, potentially a key barri...

Tempura/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As winter approaches, hospitals across the state of Colorado are facing a renewed COVID-19 crisis with an influx of patients flooding into health care facilities. Front-lin...

Lubo Ivanko/iStock(NEW YORK) -- State and local health officials are once again raising the alarm about the renewed threat of COVID-19 spread in communities across the country as people head indoors d...

PeopleImages/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Experts agree climate change is exacting a hefty toll on human health -- from increasing rates of asthma and heat stroke to depression and anxiety. But now, dermatolog...

FatCamera/iStock(ATLANTA) -- Vermont is one of the most vaccinated states in the country and has served as a model for its COVID-19 response throughout the pandemic. But now, the state is experiencing...

PinkOmelet/iStock(ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) -- The two largest hospital systems in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have activated crisis standards of care due to an "unprecedented level" of activity during the pand...

iStock(DALLAS) -- The impact of Texas's near-total ban on abortions is being felt in states as far away as California and Maryland, according to new research. In the weeks since SB8, which outlaws mos...

Kateywhat/iStock(BIRMINGHAM, Ala.) -- A boy who weighed just 15 ounces at birth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s most premature infant to survive. Curtis Means, of Alabama...

iStock/Pornpak Khunatorn(NEW YORK) -- More than 22 million infants across the globe didn't get their first measles vaccine dose last year, according to a joint statement Wednesday from the World Healt...

no_limit_pictures/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Pfizer on Tuesday requested the Food and Drug Administration allow all Americans over 18 to be eligible for booster shots, submitting data from a 10,000-person ...