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Brais Seara/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The damage of wildfires can expand far beyond the active blaze, as toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires crosses borders, enters homes and triggers health concerns,...

MoMo Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- For the last few months, JN.1 has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the United States, making up the majority of cases. A new variant, however, has taken...

Rick Slayman being discharged two weeks after pig kidney transplant. - Massachusetts General Hospital(BOSTON) -- The 62-year-old man who received the first-ever pig kidney transplant in the world has ...

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images(WEBSTER, N.Y.) -- An upstate New York nurse has been accused of falsifying vaccine records for more than 100 children across the state.The New York State Department ...

Julie McFadden, a hospice nurse in California, shares information about death on her TikTok account, @hospicenursejulie. -- @hospicenursejulie/TikTok (NEW YORK) -- Death is something everyone experien...

ABC News(MAUI, Hawaii) -- For the thousands of people who survived the Maui fires last August, the trauma of what they lived through still lingers.Lahaina painter Kirk Boes and his wife Laura have liv...

ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) -- On Sept. 10, 2022, Michael and Jill Katz received a devastating phone call that their 21-year-old daughter Sarah had collapsed while out to dinner with friends. They raced fro...

KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The City Council in Long Beach, California, voted Tuesday to ratify a local public health emergency order after an outbreak of tuberculosis...

Michelle Arnold / EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- From vegetables and legumes to fish and fresh herbs, Mediterranean ingredients provide a wide array of health benefits, and the Mediterranean diet is ...

Courtesy of Brooke Nelson(NEW YORK) -- Brooke Nelson said she was over 200 pounds and struggling to lose weight when she decided to take part in a clinical trial of a new, minimally-invasive weight lo...