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What to know about chronic pain after CEO shooting suspect Luigi Mangione appeared to detail health struggles
Stevica Mrdja /EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Authorities are looking into online accounts believed to be those of Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League graduate charged with murder in the fatal...
Liz Neporent Dec 13, 2024

California child suspected of getting bird flu after drinking raw milk
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images(MARIN COUNTY, Calif.) -- Health officials in Marin County, California say a child with a suspected bird flu infection drank raw milk before getting sick.“[M...
Sony Salzman, ABC News Dec 11, 2024

Late-stage breast cancer is rising, especially among Black women
Noam Galai/Getty Image(NEW YORK) -- The rates of late-stage breast cancer at diagnosis have risen among women in all racial and ethnic groups, but Black women have been hit the hardest, acco...
Liz Neporent and Dr. Esther Zusstone, ABC News Dec 10, 2024

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting opens up 'volcanic' anger toward health insurance agencies
Derek Crowe, a spokesman for the nonprofit People's Action Institute, speaks with ABC News. (ABC News)(NEW YORK) -- Fury, anger and resentment toward the health care industry have exploded in the publ...
Desiree Adib and Ivan Pereira, ABC News Dec 07, 2024

USDA issues order for raw milk samples nationwide to be tested for bird flu
Natalie Behring/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Raw samples nationwide will now be collected and shared with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in order to test for bird flu, according to a new federal orde...
Youri Benadjaoud and Mary Kekatos, ABC News Dec 06, 2024

Landmark Supreme Court case weighs gender-affirming care for trans kids
LW, who asked not to show her face, is a 16-year-old transgender teenager challenging Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming medical treatments that have improved her quality of life. (ABC News)(WA...
Devin Dwyer, ABC News Dec 04, 2024

These women work to kick colon cancer in 'Worldclass' style
GMA(NEW YORK) -- A growing number of people under 50 are being diagnosed with more advanced stages of colon cancer, according to the American Cancer Society.The 2020 death of 43-year-old actor Chadwic...
Ashley Ennis, Lataya Rothmiller, and Sean Keane, ABC News Dec 04, 2024

E coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders declared over: CDC
Matt Cardy/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders was declared over on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.In total...
Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News Dec 03, 2024

Cases of RSV, flu ticking up among young children in US as respiratory virus season begins
Ekaterina Goncharova/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Cases of flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are ticking up across the United States even as overall respiratory virus activity remains low.Fl...
Mary Kekatos and Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News Dec 03, 2024

Transgender teen implores Supreme Court to strike Tennessee gender-affirming care ban
After more than two years of gender-affirming treatments, LW, the Tennessee teenager behind a landmark case at the U.S. Supreme Court, says, “I feel normal now.” (ABC News)(NASHVILLE) -- T...
Devin Dwyer, Sarah Herndon, and Robert Zepeda, ABC News Dec 02, 2024
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