Category Archives: Health News – ABC Audio

sevenstockstudio(NEW YORK) -- Walmart announced it is launching its own private brand of insulin, which the big box chain says will save customers with diabetes up to 75% on the lifesaving drug. Walma...

rabany sebastien/iStock(NEW YORK) -- While COVID-19 raged in the United States, a set of public health crises was pushed to the background. HIV and drug use flourished during the pandemic, fueled in p...

eggeeggjiew/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Even as the COVID-19 pandemic shows signs of subsiding in the U.S., more people are seeking outpatient and emergency psychiatric treatment -- and for many it's harder t...

MarsBars/iStock(LITTLE ROCK, Ark.) -- Arkansas's million-dollar stick and carrot has failed to pick up its lagging COVID-19 numbers, according to recent health data. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson took ...

Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) -- A COVID-19 outbreak at a summer camp in Illinois is a reminder that young people are taking a risk by not getting vacc...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In the early days of the pandemic in spring 2020, Dr. Shereef Elnahal said 300 COVID-19 patients a day were filling the beds at University Hospital in Newark, N...

Black Women's Health Initiative and Project Health Equality(NEW YORK) -- Ciara is using her voice to bring attention to cervical cancer. The Grammy Award-winning singer, 35, recently joined forces wit...

adrian825/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Two new studies found that Type 2 diabetes appears to have doubled in children amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton broke ...

Courtesy Alexander Freeman(NEW YORK) -- When Alex Freeman, 22, a member of the transgender community, seeks medical care, he immediately braces himself for confusion, questioning or potentially life-e...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- On Valentine's Day 1982, Dab Garner was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in San Francisco. He was 19. As the U.S. reaches its 40-year milestone since the discovery of the virus, surv...