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zoranm/iStock(PRESIDIO COUNTY, Texas) -- Americans remain deeply polarized over the renewed push to get the country vaccinated. Nowhere is such a divide more evident than in Texas, where the vaccinati...

Ashlee Schwartz(FORT SMITH, Ark.) -- Emily Robison was just 22 years old when she died last month due to complications from COVID-19, leaving behind a newborn daughter whom she never met. Robison, of ...

Rawpixel/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Children can safely celebrate Halloween this year even as the coronavirus pandemic upends the holiday for the second straight year, according to the nation's top infectiou...

Jade Anderson/ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Selma Blair is getting candid about living with multiple sclerosis in a new documentary. In Introducing, Selma Blair, the actress opens up about how she is embracin...

ThitareeSarmkasat/iStock(NEW YORK) -- For years, triple-negative breast cancer has been perceived as aggressive with little hope of treatment, but that thought appears to be changing among experts as ...

ABC(ST. PAUL, Minn.) -- Laura Sosalla, of St. Paul, Minnesota, was declared legally blind earlier this year due to long-term effects after a battle with COVID-19 last November. Sosalla was determined ...

Gregg DeGuire/FilmMagic(LOS ANGELES) -- Shannen Doherty is sharing the reality of her cancer battle. The actress, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, revealed last year that the diseas...

PinkOmelet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A number of pediatric hospitals across the country are warning about an increase in the number of cases of multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare conditi...

Tempura/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of the nation, according to a new study published in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's weekl...

sudok1/iStock(MONTREAL) -- A mom who went viral while sharing her battle with ovarian cancer on social media has died. Dr. Nadia Chaudhri, 43, died on Oct. 5, according to Concordia University, where ...